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Women Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
- 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…
- I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth.…
- I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
- I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada…
- 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…
- Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
- Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
- Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
- Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
- I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to…
- Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
- What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully…
- I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to…
- . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters…
- I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make…
- Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
- I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men…
- The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
- Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today;…
- I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my…
- Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible…
- Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his…
- 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…
- It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.…
- The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
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- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood