Susan B. Anthony Quotes
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Bly, Nellie. "Champion of Her Sex." New York Sunday World, 2 Feb. 1896, p. 10.
This quotation illustrates the statement of a reform principle to appease international interests in basic human rights. This type of statement provides the “fig leaf” for the UN and other organizations to pretend that international standards of human rights are being maintained. Nasser did not implement this principle. By the beginning of the 21st century, Egypt was finally making some progress on women’s equality issues. The prohibition on female members of Parliament—{586723}—had been reversed but women were still not allowed to be judges in a criminal trial, laws against infant female circumcision, and other elements of female equality were still not in existence.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Chaucer has Criseyde say this. It is the statement that would gladden the heart of any feminist. This was one of Mary McCarthy’s favorite quotations.
This remarkable statement was written in about 1840 and there was probably then few people of either gender who would think such a thing possible.
Most modern feminists would not agree with this quotation by one of the great early femonists.
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
