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 STONEMake the world better.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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?
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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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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.
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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 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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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