What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. Anthony[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.
Susan B. AnthonyWomen, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Susan B. AnthonyOh, 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. AnthonyMarriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. AnthonyWe shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
Susan B. Anthony