Better lose me than lose a state.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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