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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. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year once a month or once a week is not enough.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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 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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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.
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A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.
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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
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When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
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The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
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Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.
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Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
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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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