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. ANTHONYThere is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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