218 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

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!

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.