But 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 STONEThe idea of equal rights was in the air.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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 road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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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 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 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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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