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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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.
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
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.
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.
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?
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
