To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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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 declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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