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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings…

Quote byLucy Stone · 1818–1893

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women" oration (17 or 18 October 1855) quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Antony, and Mathilda Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (1881).

English (original)

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

— Lucy Stone

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