Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEqual Pay for Equal Work.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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 only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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