Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYForget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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