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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYShe who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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 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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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