White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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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.
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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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