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Lucy Stone Quotes
«A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone
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«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«The idea of equal rights was in the air.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone
«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.»
Author: Lucy Stone