Top 100 Susan B Quotes
#1. Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
Elayne Boosler
#2. Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#3. I was planning to sort my comic books based on level of second wave feminist influence." "As opposed to first wave?" "Yes, well, Susan B. Anthony laid the foundation for those who have come after. It's all really interrelated but she didn't have direct influence over late twentieth century comics.
Penny Reid
#4. Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#5. Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
Susan Vreeland
#6. Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
Brad Meltzer
#7. Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
Gail Collins
#8. When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. - Susan B. Anthony A
Gail Collins
#9. People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.
Henry Rollins
#10. Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
Louise Slaughter
#11. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist
George Washington
#12. The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.
Gail Collins
#13. Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
Louise Slaughter
#14. Failure is Impossible."--Susan B. Anthony in The Renegade Queen
Eva Flynn
#15. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
#16. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
Susan B. Anthony
#18. Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
Susan B. Anthony
#20. You ever f**k Susan here?" she said, her face almost touching mine.
"I'm impressed," I said. "The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse, and voyeuristic. That's quite a lot to get into a simple question.
Robert B. Parker
#21. Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
Susan B. Anthony
#22. Perhaps the one absolute essential to growing up well is being tough enough," Susan said. "Like us," I said.
Robert B. Parker
#23. There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
#24. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
#25. We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said.
Robert B. Parker
#26. I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
Susan B. Anthony
#27. There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
Susan B. Anthony
#28. I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
Susan B. Anthony
#29. Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Susan B. Anthony
#31. I peeked under the covers. Susan was naked except for a pair of thick white athletic socks. This was another good sign. Susan
Robert B. Parker
#32. Shopping is never over," Susan said. "It is merely suspended.
Robert B. Parker
#34. Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony
#35. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
Susan B. Anthony
#36. And it's the reason I wanted you to live with me." "Not because I am cuter than a bug's ear?" "That too," Susan said. "But mostly I wanted to pretend to be what I had never been.
Robert B. Parker
#37. This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony
#38. 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!
Susan B. Anthony
#39. We should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.
Susan B. Anthony
#40. Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. Anthony
#41. We shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.
Susan B. Anthony
#42. The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
Susan B. Anthony
#43. Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
Susan B. Anthony
#44. Even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
Susan B. Anthony
#45. I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.
Susan B. Anthony
#47. Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Susan B. Anthony
#48. What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. Anthony
#49. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
#50. There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
#51. I haven't seen so many Anglo Saxons in one place since the Republican Convention," I said. "You've never been to the Republican Convention," Susan said.
Robert B. Parker
#52. Susan said, "Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe
Robert B. Parker
#53. Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
Susan B. Anthony
#54. I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely ... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
#55. Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
Susan B. Anthony
#56. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Susan B. Anthony
#57. We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
Susan B. Anthony
#58. Even in her cap and gown Susan looked like a sunrise, extravagant and full of promise. Wherever she went things seemed, as they always did, to organize around her.
Robert B. Parker
#59. If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.
Susan B. Anthony
#60. Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
Susan B. Anthony
#61. Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
Susan B. Anthony
#62. I sometimes think I know you entirely," I said. "You know me better than anyone ever has," Susan said. "And yet you're quite secretive," I said. "You surprise me often.
Robert B. Parker
#63. Don't you think we're oversexed?" "You're the shrink," I said. "You tell me." "Yes," she said. "I believe we are." "What should we do about it?" I said. "Encourage the pathology," Susan said, and smiled her rebelangel smile at me.
Robert B. Parker
#64. I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
Susan B. Anthony
#65. You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
#66. When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
Susan B. Anthony
#67. Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child.
Robert B. Parker
#68. I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Susan B. Anthony
#69. Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
Susan B. Anthony
#71. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
#72. I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony
#73. She radiated a kind of excitement, the possibility of infinite promise. It wasn't just me. Most people seemed to feel that spending time with Susan would be an adventure.
Robert B. Parker
#74. Professionally," Susan said, "I'm not at all sure that love, as such, is not simply a complex of human impulses: need, identification, possessiveness, fear of loneliness, impulse to replicate the family from which you sprang, sexual desire, anger, the desire to punish, the desire to be punished.
Robert B. Parker
#75. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
Susan B. Anthony
#76. And rich older husbands," I said. "And perhaps some evidence of promiscuity," Susan said. "I mean, every young wife doesn't cheat on her husband. Why
Robert B. Parker
#77. Susan of course would rather face gunfire than walk in the rain and ruin her hair. But
Robert B. Parker
#78. I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan's picture on my desk. Let us be true to one another, dear.
Robert B. Parker
#79. Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony
#80. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
Susan B. Anthony
#81. Susan came into the living room with her cowboy boots on and no other clothes. "Howdy," I said.
Robert B. Parker
#82. There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
Susan B. Anthony
#83. Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony
#84. Even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!
Susan B. Anthony
#85. Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
Susan B. Anthony
#86. God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
Susan B. Anthony
#88. Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Susan B. Anthony
#89. Maybe we can relax here for a few seconds," says Little B. "Oops, time's up," says Howler, slapping his hand on Little B's shoulder. "Back to being tense and hunted.
Susan Ee
#90. Susan always claimed that when I ate a sub I looked like I'd fought with it.
Robert B. Parker
#92. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
#93. The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Susan B. Anthony
#94. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
#95. Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
Susan B. Anthony
#96. We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
Susan B. Anthony
#98. Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church
to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
Susan B. Anthony
#99. Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
Susan B. Anthony
#100. I can't put the profession ahead of the people it's supposed to serve," Susan said. "It would be like teachers who care more about education than students.
Robert B. Parker
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