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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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