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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.

Susan B. Anthony

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Birthday Further Gain Power World
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Disturb Fellow God Heretic People Religion
It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Bad Body Interest Strong Wear
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Education Freedom Government People Republic
When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Citizen Force Immunity Law Person Privilege Women Women Rights
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Age Claim Command Done God Religious
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Chance Done Justice Violation Women
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Change Disconnection Try
The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Citizen Civil Country Daughter Equality Forever Guarantee Justice Politics Women Rights
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Brutal Consideration Country Divorce Evil Marriage Master Men Refuge Slave
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Different Feminism Reception Rose Throw
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Equality Girl Pay Union Wages Women Empowerment Women Rights Work

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