Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

“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.”

“Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.”

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

“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? If, when you go out to organise, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organise one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.”

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.”

“The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”

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

“If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage.”

“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.”

“No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband, must be such as the man himself cannot possibly comprehend.”

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

“The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I cannot, I want to go.”

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”

“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 have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.”