Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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 fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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