218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

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.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men’s rights are nothing more. Women’s rights are nothing less.

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

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 don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.