The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEThe 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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