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.
LUCY STONEThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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