But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
LUCY STONEIf a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right
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I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Make the world better.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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We must be true to each other.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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