Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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