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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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