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. ANTHONYWoman 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?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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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 assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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?
SUSAN B. ANTHONY