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Lucy Stone
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“The right to vote will yet be swallowed up in the real question, viz: has woman a right to herself? It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.”
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“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.”
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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 this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”
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“Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.”
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“The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”
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“Make the world better.”
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“A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers.”
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“It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself. ”
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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, U.S. abolitionist, suffragist, speaker, women's rights activist, social reformer, editor
(1818 - 1983)