Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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