Quotes by Lucy Stone

“A wife should no more take her husbands name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”

“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.”

“But I do believe that a womans 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.”

“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.”

“But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.”

“If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.”

“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.”

“The idea of equal rights was in the air.”

“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.”

“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 womans heart until she bows down to it no longer.”

Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Make the world better.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

I think God rarely gives to one man or one set of men more than one great moral victory to win.

The widening of womans sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Leave women to find their sphere.

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.