Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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