Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONEHenceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONEIf, 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?
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEWe 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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEBut I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
LUCY STONEAll 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.
LUCY STONEThe road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEIn 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 STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
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