There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Independence is happiness.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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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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