Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Most popular Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
Independence is happiness.
— Susan B. Anthony The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony

independence

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
— Susan B. Anthony The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony

men and women

Men, their rights, nothing more; Women, their rights, nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
Men, their rights, nothing more; Women, their rights, nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony

women feminism

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony
The true republic: men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
The true republic: men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony The Revolution

rights feminism

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
— Susan B. Anthony The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony

marriage

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.
— Susan B. Anthony
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 quote.
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 The History of Woman Suffrage

God

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 quote.
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 New York World

age helping others

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 quote.
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

divorce

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. - Susan B. Anthony quote.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
— Susan B. Anthony The Ghost in My Life

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