Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEToo much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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If, 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?
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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We must be true to each other.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Make the world better.
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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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