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.
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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Make the world better.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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 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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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