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Lucy Stone on Women

1818–1893 United States

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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

Too much has already been said and written about "women's sphere". Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

The opening of Oberlin to women marked an epoch.

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

The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lucy Stone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.