Feminism Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

— Susan B. Anthony

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

— Susan B. Anthony

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

— Susan B. Anthony

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

— Susan B. Anthony

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

— Susan B. Anthony

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at…

— Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from…

— Susan B. Anthony

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world…

— Susan B. Anthony

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much…

— Susan B. Anthony

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from…

— Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have…

— Susan B. Anthony

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old…

— Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of…

— Susan B. Anthony

We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to…

— Susan B. Anthony

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with…

— Susan B. Anthony

To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every…

— Susan B. Anthony

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent,…

— Susan B. Anthony

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons;…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence…

— Susan B. Anthony

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or…

— Susan B. Anthony

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will…

— Susan B. Anthony

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

— Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

— Susan B. Anthony

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

— Susan B. Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

— Susan B. Anthony

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

— Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

“...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

— Susan B. Anthony

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,…

— Susan B. Anthony

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral…

— Susan B. Anthony

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal…

— Susan B. Anthony