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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.

Susan B. Anthony

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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Achievement Advertisement Birthday Discover Goals Graduation Important Life Moments Wedding
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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Die Inspirational Time Want Work
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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Compose Man Newspaper Thinking Woman
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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Help Ignorance Law Protection Slave Trust Woman
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Control Government Moral Wages
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Advance Freedom Noble People Progress Women
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Accident Birth Cast Class Color Government Incident Individual Principle Race Racism Regard Scare Sex Violation
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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Bicycle Picture Rejoice Ride Stand Time Wheel Woman
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Approval Conscience Convention Forget Place Speak Step Thinking Words World
Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Complete Future Happiness Inspirational Life Present
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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Favor Fear Freedom Newspaper Woman Writing
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Children Concentration Ideal Improvement Money People Public Religion Rich School
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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Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
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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Abortion Burden Conscience Crime Death Guilt Life Separate Soul
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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Equality Establishment History Ignorance Movement Politics Women Women Rights
If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Inquire Life Man Pledge Politics Private Record World

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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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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