There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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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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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