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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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 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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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