Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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.
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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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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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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.
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