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.
LUCY STONE
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Lucy Stone34 quotes“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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Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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 StoneLucy Stone Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
Lucy StoneLucy Stone Make the world better.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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 StoneLucy Stone A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone 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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