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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.

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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... 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.
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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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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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It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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... even I am growing accustomed to slavery so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!
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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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... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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If I could only live another century!
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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