To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
Lucy StoneA wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
Lucy StoneToo much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
Lucy StoneAll over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
Lucy StoneWe ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Lucy StoneWomen are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?
Lucy Stone