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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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