To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
