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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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