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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

Lucy Stone

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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
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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Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave 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
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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
Leave women to find their sphere.
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Finding Freedom One Liner Women
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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Expand Herself Improvement Women World
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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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Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
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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Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
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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Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
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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Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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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Account Build Charge Earn Home Interest Men Money Pay Right Sex

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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