The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTrust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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