Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Lucy StoneThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
Lucy StoneThe last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. 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.
Lucy Stone