218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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.

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