SUSAN B. ANTHONY

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

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

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

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 and rebellion into every home of the nation.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

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

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Failure is impossible.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

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

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.