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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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