The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Independence is happiness.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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 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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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