"Women are in bondage; their clothes are a……" — Lucy Stone
"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?"
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Lucy Stone
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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into…
— Robin Winks
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material…
— George Washington
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the…
— Kate Elliott
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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
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I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private…
— Hilaire Belloc
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So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up…
— Werner Erhard
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Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
— C. D. Darlington
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