Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Being 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.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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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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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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