I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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 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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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