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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

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 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.

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

Susan B. Anthony

Work

Want

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

Work

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

Failure

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

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

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