To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.
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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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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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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Independence is happiness.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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