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 STONEA wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Make the world better.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
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