More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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.
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
