When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYModern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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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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