When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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 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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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