The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYHow shall we ever make the world intelligent?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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