There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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