More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
