I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Category Archive: 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.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.