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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.

Lucy Stone

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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Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
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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Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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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Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
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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Account Build Charge Earn Home Interest Men Money Pay Right Sex
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Distance Road Short
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Endurance Principle Victory
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
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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Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Deny Live Manager Place Truth
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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High Justice Life Noble Public Sentiment Side True

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