More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
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.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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.
