"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."

Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate
48 likes

Source: Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

About the author

Lucy Stone

Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

Lucy Stone was a prominent American suffragist and abolitionist, known for her advocacy of women's rights and her role in the women's suffrage movement.

All quotes by Lucy Stone →

Same author

More quotes by Lucy Stone

See all →
Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

"If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?"

Read quote
Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."

Read quote
Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

"We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law."

Read quote
Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

"A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost"

Read quote
Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

"To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life."

Read quote