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 STONEIn 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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