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.
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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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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.
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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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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.
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There 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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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Independence is happiness.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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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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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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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 women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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