53 Quotes by Lucy Stone

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 . . .

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

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.

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

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.

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

Leave women to find their sphere.

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.