Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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 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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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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Independence is happiness.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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