The National Women’s History Museum’s teaching resource prints this exact sentence as Anthony’s. It supplies no dated original occasion for the compact wording. The related Anthony House PDF could not be accessed, so no claim about its speech text is made here.
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent” Attributed to Susan B. Anthony; exact original occasion unconfirmed.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
The National Women’s History Museum’s teaching resource prints this exact sentence as Anthony’s. It supplies no dated original occasion for the compact wording. The related Anthony House PDF could not be accessed, so no claim about its speech text is made here. Museum teaching resource ↗
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The compact sentence makes consent the condition of legitimate government over women. The museum teaching resource preserves that attribution to Anthony but does not identify a dated speech or original publication. Its evidence supports reporting the institutional attribution with that limit. Museum teaching resource ↗
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Susan B. Anthony was a reformer whose work centered on women’s voting rights. She collaborated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in organizing, publishing and campaigning, and also worked in the abolitionist movement. Her arguments linked political representation with women’s economic and personal independence.
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