More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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?
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.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
