I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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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Independence is happiness.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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 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 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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