Feminism Quotes by Lucy Stone

10 Feminism quotes by Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone’s ten brief quotes echo the early fight for women’s suffrage. Though short, each line carries the weight of a pioneering spirit that still inspires today.

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Leave women to find their sphere.

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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

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

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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote…

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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…

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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…

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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen…

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

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