Susan B. Anthony Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Healing

  "Champion of her Sex - Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of her Remarkable Life to 'Nellie Bly'". Susan B. Anthony and Nellie Bly, New York World (p. 10), February 2, 1896.

• I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Marriage, Girl, Freedom

• Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

  Susan B. Anthony

  Independent, Giving, Independence

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

• When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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