Susan Brownell Anthony Quotes (13 Quotes)

Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

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

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

... this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

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.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.

Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

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

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.

I can see that 'reap' and 'deep,' 'prayers' and 'bears,' ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.