Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWherever, 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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 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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Independence is happiness.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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 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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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