Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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