When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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