Susan B. Anthony
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.Collection: Lying
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.Collection: Atheist
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.Collection: Daughter
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.Collection: Learning
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.Collection: Abortion
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.Collection: Mother
Better lose me than lose a state.Collection: States
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Names
It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Husband
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."Collection: Men
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.Collection: Office
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.Collection: Women
Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Collection: Racism
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. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.Collection: Inspirational
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.Collection: Next
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.Collection: War
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.Collection: Strong
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.Collection: Girl
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the peopleCollection: Teaching
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.Collection: Government
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.Collection: Party
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?Collection: God
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.Collection: Cycling
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.Collection: Love
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the worldCollection: Clever
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Successful
Every woman should have a purse of her own.Collection: Witty
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.Collection: Reform
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.Collection: Writing
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.Collection: Strong
It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.Collection: Strong
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.Collection: Cutting
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Wall
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Prayer
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.Collection: Justice
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.Collection: Jewels
Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!Collection: President
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybodyCollection: Gratitude
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.Collection: Men
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.Collection: Children
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.Collection: People
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.Collection: Struggle