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. ANTHONYLiberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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 be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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