The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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