Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Woman 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?
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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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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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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