When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYInconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYLiberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNot one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYYou would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOur Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY