Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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 think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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 distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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