What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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