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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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If I could only live another century!
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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I 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.
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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