Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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