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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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 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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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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The 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.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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