The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize 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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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 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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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