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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYLiberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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