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When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one… — Susan B. Anthony

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When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life.

Susan B. Anthony
1896
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Women's equalityMen and womenRelationships
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Interview
Time
1896
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Susan B. Anthony
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Current citation
Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush 1895 to 1906, edited by Ann D. Gordon. Vol. 6, Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Original citation
Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” Interviewed by Nellie Bly. New York World, 2 Feb. 1896.

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