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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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