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 STONELeave women to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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.
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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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We must be true to each other.
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Make the world better.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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 ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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 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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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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