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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYModern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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 no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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 question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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