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. ANTHONYOh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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