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• Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Hair, Long

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• I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

  Lucy Stone

  Speak, Abolitionist

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• I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

  Lucy Stone

  Summer, Trying, Phases Of Life

  Lucy Stone, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Carol Lasser, Marlene Merrill (1987). “Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93”, p.147, University of Illinois Press

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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

  Lucy Stone

  God, Time, Believe

  "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women". Speech. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 1, 1881.

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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

  Lucy Stone

  Children, Husband, Believe

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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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.

  Lucy Stone

  Inspirational, Acceptance, World

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• Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

  Lucy Stone

  Victory, Principles, Endure

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

  Lucy Stone

  Two, Victory, Wish

  Letter to Susan B. Anthony in 1891. "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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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.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Rights, House

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier,, 1972.

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• The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

  Lucy Stone

  Politician, Sentiments, Creatures

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Years, Birth Place

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• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

  Lucy Stone

  Women, Independent, Clothes

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony". Book by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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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.

  Lucy Stone

  Winning, Men, Thinking

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

  Lucy Stone

  Healing, Tree, Nations

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

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• Leave women to find their sphere.

  Lucy Stone

  Spheres

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