White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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 don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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