I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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