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 STONEI return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We must be true to each other.
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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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