More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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.
