I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYResistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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Woman 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?
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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