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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.

Lucy Stone

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
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 STONE

Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
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
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
We must be true to each other.
LUCY STONE

Each Other One Liner True
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONE

God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONE

Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
Make the world better.
LUCY STONE

Better One Liner World
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONE

Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
LUCY STONE

Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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.
LUCY STONE

Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth
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
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONE

Endurance Principle Victory

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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