More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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.
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.
Failure is impossible.
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
