Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWomen, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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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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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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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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