Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Woman must have room and scope to devise a morality which does not disqualify her from excellence..

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

I have the right to determine who shall be my mate without the permission of any man. I am not a slave.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

Women in most countries may take their aspirations for freedom for granted, but for many of us, it is brand new.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

A woman should be allowed to be whoever and whatever she wants to be and she should be respected for that.

I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.