Susan B. Anthony

There 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.

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

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

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.

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel_the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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

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, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

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

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

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.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

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.

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

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.

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