Susan B. Anthony Quotes

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Approach Equality Man Recognize Woman World
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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Earn Individual Pursue Wife Woman Women Rights
Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence One Liner
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Education One Liner Women Rights
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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Different Grandmother Invention Law Modernization Progress Wheel Woman
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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Baby Honor Talent Womanhood
Equal Pay for Equal Work.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Equality Justice One Liner Wages Work
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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Earn Earth Girl Happiness Independence Live Security Sweet Women Empowerment
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Country Inconsistence Jewel People
It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Government Poor Rule Work
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Earth Feminism Green Men Same Season Silence Women Women Rights
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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Doll Marriage Poverty She Young
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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Favor Fear Freedom Newspaper Woman Writing
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Betrayal Feminism Man Woman
If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Inquire Life Man Pledge Politics Private Record World
White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Control Feminism Wages Wife
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Ignorance Self Respect Sex Success Woman Work
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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Accident Birth Cast Class Color Government Incident Individual Principle Race Racism Regard Scare Sex Violation
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. ANTHONY

Bicycle Done Freedom Giving Self Reliance Women World
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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Incidence Life Luxury Marriage Necessary Women
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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National Officer Retirement Salary Wages
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Compose Man Newspaper Thinking Woman
Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Alone Bread Feminism Man Woman Women Empowerment
When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Convert Generation Straw
I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Die Inspirational Time Want Work

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