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.
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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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?
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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