Susan B. Anthony Quotes

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.

Before you leave the presidential chair recommend a Constitutional amendment to enfranchise women.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now!

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

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.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Women stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

My own adhesion to the Suffrage Cause was given largely because I saw that only through political equality may we hope to see established a true understanding and a happier relationship between the sexes.

The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

I not only advocate it now, but have advocated it earnestly for the last fifty years. As to the militant suffragettes, I have noted that many women believe in militant methods. You might advocate one way of securing the rights and I might advocate another, they both might help to bring about the result desired. To win freedom always involves hard fighting. I believe in women doing what they deem necessary to secure their rights.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.

I'm definitely a feminist.