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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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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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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 have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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 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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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