Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBeing 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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 do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, 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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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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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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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