Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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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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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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