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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

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Lucy Stone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1818
Born: August 13
Died: 1893
Died: October 18
Abolitionist
Activist
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Suffragette
Suffragist
West Brookfield
Massachusetts
Lucy Stone Blackwell
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Widening
Sneer
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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