To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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 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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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.
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