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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Consent Free Will Freedom Independence Male Female Relationships

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Bicycle Emancipation Women

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Equality Feminist Women

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Feminism Marriage

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. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Feminism Self Reliance Suffrage

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Battered Women Codependence Codependency Domestic Abuse Feminism Feminist Independence Inspirational

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Every Own Purse Woman

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Self Acceptance

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Self Confidence

Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Self Confidence

Independence is happiness.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Self Reliance

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Self Reliance

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Cry Organize Must

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Success Woman Party

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Women Live See

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Trust Law Woman

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Suffrage Right Pivotal

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Women Help Laws

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Constitution People

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Blessings Men Liberty

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Men Nothing Rights

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Blessings Government

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony History Moon Vote

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Motto Men Rights

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Enemy Worst Pulpit

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 was to the slaves of brutal masters.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Men Evil Divorce

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 God.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony God Tyranny Resistance

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.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony I Am World Help

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony People Know Well

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Life Women Men

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Children People Rich

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Father Mother Wife

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Children Father Spiritual
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