Quotes About Susan B. Anthony

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Kathleen Barry. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. First Books: Bloomington, IN, 2000

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, held in 1904.

Of course, with my luck, the Shepherd could be a crazy numismatist just dying for a Kennedy fifty-cent piece. Maybe I could set a trap with a handful of change. Here, Shepherd, here boy, look, I have a Susan B. Anthony dollar, you know you want it.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.