Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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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
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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