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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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" If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves. "

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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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" Failure is impossible. "

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" Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. "

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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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" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "

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" What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. "

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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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" Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

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" The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. "

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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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" The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. "

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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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" Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor. "

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