What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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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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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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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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