"A woman growing up under American ideas of……" — Susan B. Anthony
"A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it."
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102 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony has 102 quotes on this site.
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Independence is happiness.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect…
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides…
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as…
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would…
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.…
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball…
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is…
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men…
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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