Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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Independence is happiness.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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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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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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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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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 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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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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