The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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