It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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