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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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 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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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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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