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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.

Lucy Stone

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
LUCY STONE

Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONE

Freedom Leaving Talk Women Writing
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.
LUCY STONE

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONE

Distance Road Short
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
LUCY STONE

Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
If 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.
LUCY STONE

Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONE

High Justice Life Noble Public Sentiment Side True
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
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.
LUCY STONE

Expand Herself Improvement Women World
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth
We must be true to each other.
LUCY STONE

Each Other One Liner True
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.
LUCY STONE

Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONE

Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
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.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering

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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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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