It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBeing 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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