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.
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.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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Forget 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.
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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