The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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