More from Susan B. Anthony
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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. AnthonySusan B. Anthony
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery
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More on equality
Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.
Antoine LavoisierAntoine Lavoisier In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John DonneJohn Donne Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson
