Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYForget 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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