Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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 don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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