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 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.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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We must be true to each other.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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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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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 to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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