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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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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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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 real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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 pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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