An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share
