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 STONEA wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEI was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEAll 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.
LUCY STONEIf, 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?
LUCY STONEHenceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONEWe 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 STONEThe 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 STONEI 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.
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
LUCY STONEI 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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