The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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 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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