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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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The 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.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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