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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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If I could only live another century!
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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