To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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