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Susan B. Anthony on Women

1820–1906 United States

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9 quotes

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

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)

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 them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)

Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan B. Anthony (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.