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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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