Lucy Stone

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.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.