Independence is happiness.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOur Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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 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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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