[ Famous Quotes ] Lucy Stone, American reformer and feminist, 1818-1893

Lucy Stone, American reformer and feminist, 1818-1893

“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.”

“’We, the people of the United States.’ Which ‘We, the people’? The women were not included.”

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

“In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen that disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”

“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 difference.”

“Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”

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