For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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 poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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