Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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