Susan B. Anthony Quotes

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

Before my stroke, I thought I was infallible, because I was physically strong, and could do these endless hours with no effects, whatsoever. But sooner or later, we all hit a wall.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

In the midst of death life persists.

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

Life is stronger than death.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.