Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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