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Lucy Stone: Because I know...

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Because I know that I shall suffer, shall I, for this, like Lot's wife, turn back? No, mother, if in this hour of the world's need I should refuse to lend my aid, however small it may be, . . . I should forever despise Lucy Stone.

Source: Letter to Her Mother, c. 1847; in Morning Star, Pt. II, Ch. 6, by Elinor Rice Hays 1961.
-- 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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