Lucy Stone citations (34 citations, Page 2)

Lucy Stone citations

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Lucy Stone, née le 13 août 1818 à West Brookfield dans le Massachusetts et décédée le 19 octobre 1893 à Boston , est une féministe et abolitionniste américaine. En 1839, elle est la première femme du Massachusetts à obtenir un grade universitaire. Elle est en outre la première femme américaine à conserver son nom de jeune fille après son mariage. Wikipedia

✵ 13. août 1818 – 19. octobre 1893

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Lucy Stone: Citations en anglais

“The commencement of the last fifty years is about the beginning of that great change and improvement in the condition of women which exceeds all the gains of hundreds of years before.”

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The Progress of Fifty Years (1893)

“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

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Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1891); as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1898) by Ida Husted Harper.

“Make the world better.”

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Last recorded words; said to her daughter. (October 1893)

“We believe in marriage for life, and deprecate all this loose, pestiferous talk in favor of easy divorce... Be not deceived — free love means free lust.”

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In an 1870 writing making it clear that those wishing for "free divorce" were not associated with Stone's organization, American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)