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“I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)”

FeminismSusan B Anthony
Book:Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” – Nellie Bly and the Women Who Changed Journalism Forever
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“From "Not For Ourselves Alone:" In Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s time: Women were barred by custom from the pulpit and professions Those who spoke in public were thought indecent Married women were prohibited from owning or inheriting property: in fact, wives were the property of their husbands, who were entitled by law to her wages and her body. Women were prohibited from signing contracts Women had no right to their children or even their clothing in a divorce Women were not allowed to serve on juries and most were considered incompetent to testify. Women were not allowed to VOTE.”

Susan B AnthonyElizabeth Cady StantonKen BurnsNot For Ourselves Alone
Author:Ken Burns
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“Frisland is a country that's so powerful it had itself removed off all world maps, so it could stealthily gain influence. It has an ancient ruler named King Anthony, better known as Susan B. Anthony. Susan really do be Anthony. King Anthony began to reign over Frisland just as soon as Susan B. Anthony "died." At first, King Anthony was kept alive through crude cloning techniques, but over the last century, technology has advanced so far that now King Anthony exists as a spirit embedded in a hologram.”

HumorHistoryAbsurdConspiracyKingdomConspiracy TheoryConspiracy TheoriesHologramSusan B AnthonyFrisland
Book:94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
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“Whatever the question up for discussion as to wrongs, injustice, inequality, maladministration of the law, Miss Anthony would always say, 'Well, now when women get the ballot all that will be changed.' So I asked her one day, 'Miss Anthony, do you really believe that the millennium is going to come when women get the ballot? Knowing women as I do, and their petty outlook on life, although I believe that it is right that they should have the vote, I do not believe that the exercise of the vote is going to change women's nature nor the political situation.' Miss Anthony seemed a little bit startled, but she did not make any contention on that point.”

SuffrageWomen S SuffrageSusan B Anthony1898
Book:Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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“It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.”

MenYearsLongImportantEnoughStoriesWould BeSchoolAmericaFacesCoursesEffortStruggleStudyEventsActivityConstantDecadesMidnightSuffrageSusan B Anthony
Author:Judy Chicago
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