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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Woman's Bible (1898)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches (1981)

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