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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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.
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We 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.
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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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