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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

Lucy Stone

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Expand Herself Improvement Women World
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.
LUCY STONE

Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
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.
LUCY STONE

Account Build Charge Earn Home Interest Men Money Pay Right Sex
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONE

Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONE

Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
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.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONE

Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
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
LUCY STONE

Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
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.
LUCY STONE

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
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 STONE

Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment

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