Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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