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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYModern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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