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?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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