It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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