Independence is happiness.
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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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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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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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