“Las mujeres no deben depender de la protección de un hombre, sino que deben aprender a protegerse.”
Original: «Women must no depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself».
Fuente: Discurso en San Francisco, julio de 1871.
Con respecto a Elizabeth Cady Stanton en Woman's Tribune de 22 de febrero de 1890.
Original: «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».
Fuente: Citado en Gordon, Ann D. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895. Editorial Rutgers University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780813564401. p. 243.
Original: «The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South».
Fuente: Bartlett, John. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Editor Geoffrey O'Brien. 18ª Edición. Editorial Hachette UK, 2014. ISBN 9780316250184.. p. 276.
“Haced entender a vuestros empleadores que estais a su servicio como trabajadoras no como mujeres.”
Original: «Make your employers understand that you are in their service as workers not as women».
Fuente: The Revolution (periódico sufragista para mujeres), 8 de octubre de 1868.
Original: «Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life».
Fuente: Discurso sobre la pureza social (primavera de 1875).