I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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