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. ANTHONYThere shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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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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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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