Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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