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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect law-makers.

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“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect law-makers.”

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Anthony argues that formal advances for women cannot become full equality while women remain excluded from directly choosing lawmakers and participating in lawmaking.

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“The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future,” The Arena, May 1897, pp. 901–908; exact passage independently preserved in the complete Santa Rosa public-library transcription, PDF p. 5. Anthony says legal reforms will not produce complete equality until women help make laws and elect law-makers. The hyphenated “law-makers” wording is retained; this remains historical suffrage advocacy rather than current legal advice.

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