More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
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.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.
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.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
