Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEWe must be true to each other.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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