Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. Susan B Anthony
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
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B Anthony
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Susan B Anthony
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Susan B Anthony
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. Susan B Anthony
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. Susan B Anthony
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. 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. Susan B Anthony
There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread if dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it. Susan B Anthony