"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothi..."
- Susan B. Anthony
"I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
"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. "
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice ever..."
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less."
"Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?"
- Susan B. Anthony Collection
"When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall..."
"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."