It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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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.
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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 shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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