Top 100 Susan B. Anthony Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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2. “Independence is happiness.”

— Susan B. Anthony

3. “Failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

4. “Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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5. “Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”

— Susan B. Anthony

6. “Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

— Susan B. Anthony

7. “Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

8. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

10. “There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”

— Susan B. Anthony

11. “I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

13. “There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

15. “Suffrage is the pivotal right.”

— Susan B. Anthony

16. “The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”

— Susan B. Anthony

17. “Every woman should have a purse of her own.”

— Susan B. Anthony

18. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

19. “There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause – I wish I could name every one – but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!”

— Susan B. Anthony

20. “I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”

— Susan B. Anthony

21. “I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”

— Susan B. Anthony

22. “Nothing is hopeless that is right.”

— Susan B. Anthony

23. “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

— Susan B. Anthony

24. “You 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. Anthony

25. “It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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26. “The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.”

— Susan B. Anthony

27. “We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.”

— Susan B. Anthony

28. “Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.”

— Susan B. Anthony

29. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

30. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

32. “Now, Mr. President, we don’t intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!”

— Susan B. Anthony

33. “For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.”

— Susan B. Anthony

34. “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

36. “Our 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

37. “The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.”

— Susan B. Anthony

38. “Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”

— Susan B. Anthony

39. “Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”

— Susan B. Anthony

40. “There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.”

— Susan B. Anthony

41. “The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

43. “Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.”

— Susan B. Anthony

44. “Oh, yes. I’d do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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45. “When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.”

— Susan B. Anthony

46. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

47. “The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.”

— Susan B. Anthony

48. “I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.”

— Susan B. Anthony

49. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony