The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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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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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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