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.
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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
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
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To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
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The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.
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We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did it well that the tools belonged to those who could use them that the possession of a power presupposed a right to its use. This was urged from city to city, from state to state. Women were encouraged to try new occupations.
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