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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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