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 More Quotes by Lucy Stone More Quotes From Lucy Stone All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours. Lucy Stone land taken law 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. Lucy Stone acceptance inspirational world Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness. Lucy Stone clothes wall atheism 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 hair men long Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle. Lucy Stone endure victory principles I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment. Lucy Stone phases-of-life summer trying Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified. Lucy Stone birth-place truth years I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women. Lucy Stone abolitionist speak But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote Lucy Stone husband believe children 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 interest. Lucy Stone rights house sex It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it. Lucy Stone victory wish two You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please. Lucy Stone peers long sex I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. Lucy Stone winning men thinking Leave women to find their sphere. Lucy Stone spheres The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . Lucy Stone sentiments creatures politician 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 Lucy Stone god time believe Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. Lucy Stone nations healing tree 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? Lucy Stone women clothes independent The idea of equal rights was in the air. Lucy Stone rights air ideas
