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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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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Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
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
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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
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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Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
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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Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
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
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Endurance Principle Victory
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
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

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