“ Make the world better. ”
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.
~ Lucy Stone
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.