Susan B. Anthony Quotes And Sayings About Women
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Susan B. Anthony Quotes And Sayings About Women:
Susan B. Anthony Quotes
1. Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
― Susan B. Anthony
2. Men - their rights and nothing more; Women - their rights and nothing less.
― Susan B. Anthony
3. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
― Susan B. Anthony
4. I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
― Susan B. Anthony
5. Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
― Susan B. Anthony
6. There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
― Susan B. Anthony
7. Then the next great question has been this woman question. When we started out on that the whole religious world was turned upside down with fright. We women were disobeying St. Paul; we women were getting out of sphere and would be no good anywhere, here or hereafter; and the way that I was scarified! I don't know, somehow or other the press both secular and religious, always took special pride in scarifying Miss Anthony. I used to tell them it was because I hadn't a husband or a son who would shoot the men down who abused me. Well, now they take special pains to praise. It is a wonderful revolution of the press.
― Susan B. Anthony
8. You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
― Susan B. Anthony
9. Failure is Impossible.
― Susan B. Anthony
10. Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
― Susan B. Anthony
11. A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.
― Susan B. Anthony
12. I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
― Susan B. Anthony
13. Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
― Susan B. Anthony
14. Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
― Susan B. Anthony
15. We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
― Susan B. Anthony
16. Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
― Susan B. Anthony
17. Independence is happiness.
― Susan B. Anthony
18. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
― Susan B. Anthony
19. To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
― Susan B. Anthony
20. Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
― Susan B. Anthony
21. I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
― Susan B. Anthony
22. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll.
― Susan B. Anthony
23. People expect too much of the press and too much of the ministers. It is the pews that make the pulpit and decide what the pulpit shall be, and it is the constituents and subscribers for the religious papers that decide what the religious paper shall be, and therefore when you tell me that a minister is thus and so in opposing any great moral reform, or that the religious press and newspaper is thus and so, what do you tell me? You tell me that the majority of the people in the pews indorse that minister, that the majority of the church members who read that paper won't allow that editor to speak anything on the question. That is all.
― Susan B. Anthony
24. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
― Susan B. Anthony
25. There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
― Susan B. Anthony
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