Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere 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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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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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 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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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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