218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

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