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Lucy Stone Quotes about Husband

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.

"The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday