Top 100 Susan B. Anthony Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.”

— Susan B. Anthony

52. “The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.”

— Susan B. Anthony

53. “A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.”

— Susan B. Anthony

54. “I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men’s rights are nothing more. Women’s rights are nothing less.”

— Susan B. Anthony

55. “When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”

— Susan B. Anthony

56. “I can’t say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.”

— Susan B. Anthony

57. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

58. “It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say “ladies and gentlemen,” but a lady should say, “gentlemen and ladies.” You mention your friend’s name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, “ladies and gentlemen.” It is a lack of good manners.”

— Susan B. Anthony

59. “A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.”

— Susan B. Anthony

60. “I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

— Susan B. Anthony

61. “Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.”

— Susan B. Anthony

62. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

63. “Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.”

— Susan B. Anthony

64. “The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.”

— Susan B. Anthony

65. “Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.”

— Susan B. Anthony

66. “No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.”

— Susan B. Anthony

67. “There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.”

— Susan B. Anthony

68. “We 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. Anthony

69. “What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.”

— Susan B. Anthony

70. “I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.”

— Susan B. Anthony

71. “There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.”

— Susan B. Anthony

72. “Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.”

— Susan B. Anthony

73. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

74. “I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

76. “Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men’s ideas. As long as that continues, women’s ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.”

— Susan B. Anthony

77. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

78. “Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

80. “Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?”

— Susan B. Anthony

81. “Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth’s.”

— Susan B. Anthony

82. “All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.”

— Susan B. Anthony

83. “If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation’s greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.”

— Susan B. Anthony

84. “Independent bread gives independent morals: – while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; – So get money – get wealth.”

— Susan B. Anthony

85. “What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!”

— Susan B. Anthony

86. “Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church – to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.”

— Susan B. Anthony

87. “The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?”

— Susan B. Anthony

88. “I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.”

— Susan B. Anthony

89. “To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.”

— Susan B. Anthony

90. “I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.”

— Susan B. Anthony

91. “Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.”

— Susan B. Anthony

92. “Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.”

— Susan B. Anthony

93. “When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!”

— Susan B. Anthony

94. “If I could only live another century!”

— Susan B. Anthony

95. “It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman’s sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.”

— Susan B. Anthony

96. “Better lose me than lose a state.”

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— Susan B. Anthony

98. “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.”

— Susan B. Anthony

99. “So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.”

— Susan B. Anthony

100. “If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.”

— Susan B. Anthony