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Lucy Stone: I know not...

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Source: Speech, Disappointment Is the Lot of Women, 17-18 October 1855; in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mathilda Gage, 1881.
-- Lucy Stone, (Aug 13 1818-1893), US suffragist, feminist; She founded the American Woman's Suffrage Assn; first known woman to keep her own name after marriage.


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