Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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