Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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