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 STONEI 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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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.
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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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