To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Independence is happiness.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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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.
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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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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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