Lucy Stone, As quoted in The Lif Quotes

A collection of quotes by Lucy Stone, As quoted in The Lif.

Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent American abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Born in Massachusetts, she became a powerful voice for social justice and gender equality. Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree, graduating from Oberlin College in 1847. She worked tirelessly to promote suffrage and equal rights for women, delivering powerful speeches across the United States. As a steadfast believer in nonviolent activism, she played a crucial role in the formation of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Stone's unwavering dedication to the emancipation of women left a lasting impact on the feminist movement.

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to

Women 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, As quoted in The Lif

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