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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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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.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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