I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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If I could only live another century!
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