Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

— Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is impossible” - Susan B. Anthony”

— Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

— Susan B. Anthony

If I could only live another century!

— Susan B. Anthony

Independence is happiness.

— Susan B. Anthony

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

— Susan B. Anthony

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

— Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

— Susan B. Anthony

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

— Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

— Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

— Susan B. Anthony

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

— 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

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

— Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for…

— Susan B. Anthony

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her…

— Susan B. Anthony

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. .…

— Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

— Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and…

— Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the…

— 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

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people,…

— Susan B. Anthony

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race,…

— Susan B. Anthony

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

[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had…

— Susan B. Anthony

I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred…

— Susan B. Anthony

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be…

— Susan B. Anthony

Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my…

— Susan B. Anthony

I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me…

— Susan B. Anthony

It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings…

— Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are…

— Susan B. Anthony