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.
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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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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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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 woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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