Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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