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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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.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Independence is happiness.
Failure is impossible.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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