Susan B. Anthony Quotes.
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
Failure is impossible.
To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
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.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
