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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Susan B. Anthony

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Enemy Pulpit Women Worst
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Age Claim Command Done God Religious
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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Earn Earth Girl Happiness Independence Live Security Sweet Women Empowerment
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Father Heaven Mother Pray
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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Declare Depend Herself Protection Stand Teaching Woman
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 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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Ballot Woman
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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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Dreams Man Rejection Vision
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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

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