Lucy Stone Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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 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

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.

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

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.

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.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

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?

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

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

Leave women to find their sphere.