It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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