For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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.
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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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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Independence is happiness.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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