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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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Wikiquote: Susan B. Anthony
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Context

Speech on Social Purity (Spring 1875)

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Anthony, Susan B.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Susan B. Anthony. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony

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