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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNot one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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