"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."

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Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

Lucy Stone

#Husband Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“I had learnt to seek intensity â€” more of life, a concentrated sense of life.”
“Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.”
“Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.”
“At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.”
“People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination”
“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”
“A young choreographer often gets hung up on thinking they have to have all the answers. As a choreographer ages, they realize that they're more of a steward to movement. We mold movement and curate and form it into plausible and understandable stories.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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