Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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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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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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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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