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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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