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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Wherever, 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.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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