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... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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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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Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
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I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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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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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
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... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year once a month or once a week is not enough.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly' but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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