The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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