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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
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.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
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.
