I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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