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 STONELeave women to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Make the world better.
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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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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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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