I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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