Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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