Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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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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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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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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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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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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