Lucy Stone

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.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.