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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMen, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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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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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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