It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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