Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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