Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of 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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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Modern 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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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