"The widening of woman's sphere is to improve……" — Lucy Stone
"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."
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26 Quotes by Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone has 26 quotes on this site.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those…
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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of…
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Make the world better.
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right…
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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor…
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not…
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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…
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and…
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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…
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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