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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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