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.
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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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