More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.
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.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Failure is impossible.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
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.
