Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThis is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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