Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. Lucy Stone More Quotes by Lucy Stone More Quotes From Lucy Stone If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty? Lucy Stone guiltmotherchildren I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power. Lucy Stone i-believebelievecountry Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. Lucy Stone fearlessjusticenumbers We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. Lucy Stone rightslawjustice A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost Lucy Stone wifehusbandnames To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. Lucy Stone nobletruthjustice 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. Lucy Stone businessdisappointmentheart I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. Lucy Stone gratitudewomenthinking The road before us is shorter than the road behind. Lucy Stone progressbehinds It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself. Lucy Stone stillsmen The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. 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. Lucy Stone disappointmentteachermemories Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere. Lucy Stone spherestoo-muchpowerful 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 Lucy Stone bodyusemay Make the world better. Lucy Stone spookyhalloweenworld I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. Lucy Stone humanitymeansex I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. Lucy Stone taxationbillssuffering The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. Lucy Stone womendemocracyintelligent We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind. Lucy Stone gainssighthands In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers. Lucy Stone practicelawmissing We must be true to each other. Lucy Stone being-truerelationship
