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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYA republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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 only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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