We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
Lucy Stone Quotes
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
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| Birth: | 13th August, 1818 |
| Death: | 19th October, 1893 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Organizer, Abolitionist, Lawyer, Suffragist |
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