It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOh, 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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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 do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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