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Susan B. Anthony was born on Febuary 15,1820, and she grew up in a Quaker home. Growing up in a Quaker home affected her

life a lot. The rebuff of Anthony's attempt at making a speech at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852 lead her to organize the

Women's New York State Temperance Society.She was one of the most famous sufferage leaders. She was also known to be a

hard worker.

In 1868, Anthony became the publisher of a newspaper called the //Revolution//. In January 1869, she organized a womans suffrage

convention in Washington D.C. She tried to vote in the 1872 presidential election in Rochester, New York. She was then arrested,

convicted, and fined (even though she never paid the fine).She then retired at the age of 80 from being the president of the

National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Susan B. Anthony was one of the many people who were involved in woman suffrage. Woman suffrage was the issue of women getting the right to vote. At the time only white men could vote. Blacks and women couldn't vote, and people laughed at them when they said they wanted to vote. It was a long and hard struggle to get voting rights.

The idea for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference was the one that refused to seat Mott and other women from America because of their gender. Eight years later, it came about as a spontaneous event.

Taking the Declaration of Independence as her guide, Stanton submitted that "all men and women had been created equal" and went on to list eighteen "injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." Stanton also drafted eleven resolutions, making the argument that women had a natural right to equality in all spheres. They finally did get voting rights in 1910. A few states granted women the right to vote. Still some states refused to give them the right. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt came up with a plan that would allow women to vote. The plan was a blitz campaign that mobilized state and local suffrage organizations all over the country. World War I slowed down their campaign, but helped them in the long run. Then after a lot of hard work they finally got it. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment was ratified. A lot of activists said that the women deserved as much as the men did. They were true citizens now.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done in that country, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. -Carrie Chapman Catt



A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. -Elizabeth Blackwell



It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death. -Emmeline Pankhurst

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. -Lucretia Mott

"We, the people of the United States." Which "We, the people"? The women were not included. -Lucy Stone

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. -Sojourner Truth

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. — Virginia Woolf

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. — Elaine Gill