Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYAway with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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