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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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