Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to 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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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