Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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