Susan B. Anthony Quotes

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation.

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

Independence is happiness.

Trust me, if I can bridge the gap between poverty and wealth, any feminist can bridge the gap between the governess and teacher.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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.

I think women can do anything; we just wouldn’t be able to take control of the world when men are so well qualified to do it.

Women, we might as well be killed as enslaved.

I be feasting upon the king’s flesh if I had control over the legislature.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Failure is impossible.

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.

The revolution has never had but one chance – failure would be worse than death.

To trust women, to command their respect and love, to believe that their judgment has the same authority as our own – that is to have the unity without which the greatest danger threatens us.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

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.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I had no choice. I had to kick him. From then on I was branded.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must depend upon herself. Teach her that she must inculcate self-respect, and intellectual and moral strength.

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, if I can bridge the gap between poverty and wealth, any feminist can bridge the gap between the governess and teacher.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

The true woman will not be smaller, weaker, or less intelligent than the true man.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation.

Woman is the waitstaff of the world, we come from unknown sources and undergo treatment from utter strangers.

Suffrage is a fight, not a privilege.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

It is the saddest commentary on the progress of our race in civilization that such a barbaric word as ‘female’ should still be used to describe our sex.

I am a person of a thousand looks.

To trust women, to command their respect and love, to believe that their judgment has the same authority as our own – that is to have the unity without which the greatest danger threatens us.

Independence is happiness.

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

Woman is the waitstaff of the world.

I think women have just as much right to sit inside a government as men do.

The true woman will not be smaller, weaker, or less intelligent than the true man.

Failure is impossible.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Learning to trust your own instincts, growth and choices that one may make, therefore one should embrace the challenge when a moment of self-crisis arises.

Nothing will be done until women themselves hit out.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

The impasse in which we find ourselves on the problem of secured political rights for women is nearly as great today as it was 46 years ago.

Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.

The history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice; their choice!

I want to live in a unified, harmonious society where people are judged by their character, not by their gender.