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Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Believe Feminism Opponent Person Question Settle Women
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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Equality Knee Life Men Moments Pray Prayer Religion Women Work Worship
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Doll Marriage Poverty She Young
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ballot Woman
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ballot Blessing Democracy Deny Enjoyment Feminism Government Liberty Republic Secure Women
White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Control Feminism Wages Wife
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

One Liner Pursue Woman Women Empowerment
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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Chain Fact Realize Women
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Demand Employ Equality Pay Service Understand Value Women Women Empowerment Work
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. ANTHONY

Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cruel Die Liberty Struggle Thinking
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Favor Fear Freedom Newspaper Woman Writing
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Education Intolerance Liberty Organization Platform Practice Principle Women
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Age Claim Command Done God Religious
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Enemy Pulpit Women Worst
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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Disturb Fellow God Heretic People Religion

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