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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMany abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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 distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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