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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYAway with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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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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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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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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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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