I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhy should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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 woman should have a purse of her own.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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