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50 Susan B. Anthony Quotes on Life, Change, and Failure

Looking for inspirational Susan B. Anthony quotes that will make you value your freedom?

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a key role in the women’s voting rights movement. She was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions, and she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal early in her life. She went on to work as a teacher before becoming active in temperance.

In 1952, she joined the women’s rights movement after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two would become lifelong friends who dedicated their lives to advocating for social reforms.

Although she was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage, Anthony never shied away from campaigning for women’s rights. She was even arrested and convicted in 1872 for voting but she refused to pay the fine. She would later help push the Congress to ratify an amendment giving women the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony will always be remembered for her aggressiveness and compassion as well as her keen mind and great ability to inspire. Despite all the opposition and abuse, she managed to use her Everyday Power to give force and direction to the women’s suffrage movement.

In her honor, here is our collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful Susan B. Anthony quotes and Susan B. Anthony sayings that will inspire you.

Born: February 15, 1820, Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died: March 13, 1906 (aged 86), Rochester, New York, U.S.

Susan B. Anthony Quotes About Life, Change, and Failure

1.) I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. – Susan B. Anthony

2.) The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. – Susan B. Anthony

3.) I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. – Susan B. Anthony

4.) Suffrage is the pivotal right. – Susan B. Anthony

5.) Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. – Susan B. Anthony

6.) Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

7.) Men – their rights and nothing more; Women – their rights and nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

8.) Failure is impossible. – Susan B. Anthony

9.) Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. – Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Quotes About Change

10.) Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. – Susan B. Anthony

11.) Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. – Susan B. Anthony

12.) The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self… Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength… She will proclaim the “glad tidings of good news” to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop… every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life. – Susan B. Anthony

13.) Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation. – Susan B. Anthony

14.) I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. – Susan B. Anthony

15.) I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. – Susan B. Anthony

16.) The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do. – Susan B. Anthony

17.) There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women. I hope the twentieth century will see the triumph of our cause. – Susan B. Anthony

18.) The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain – Susan B. Anthony

19.) I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. – Susan B. Anthony

Powerful Susan B. Anthony Quotes

20.) I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. – Susan B. Anthony

21.) If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. – Susan B. Anthony

22.) No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. – Susan B. Anthony

23.) Where, under our Declaration of Independence, does the Saxon man get his power to deprive all women and Negroes of their inalienable rights? – Susan B. Anthony

24.) May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.… And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. – Susan B. Anthony

25.) It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people — women as well as men. – Susan B. Anthony

26.) Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. – Susan B. Anthony

27.) The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. – Susan B. Anthony

28.) We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever. – Susan B. Anthony

29.) There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. – Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony quotes on women

30.) No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex. – Susan B. Anthony

31.) Wherever women gather together failure is impossible. – Susan B. Anthony

32.) Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. – Susan B. Anthony

33.) The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. – Susan B. Anthony

34.) There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth. – Susan B. Anthony

35.) Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . . – Susan B. Anthony

36.) Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. – Susan B. Anthony

37.) I can see that “reap” and “deep,” “prayers” and “bears,” . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.” – Susan B. Anthony

38.) We need to see whether this is a one-off or more serious. – Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony Quotes on Failure

39.) The reduced forecast for the handset market is a surprise at this stage of the year…they are pulling back their own sales growth, and I would have thought they wouldn’t need to do that until later in the year. – Susan B. Anthony

40.) The shares have just run away from themselves, so some falls are to be expected. – Susan B. Anthony

41.) Coin. I’m on on. Suck it. – Susan B. Anthony

42.) I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. – Susan B. Anthony

43.) Every woman should have a purse of her own. – Susan B. Anthony

Other inspirational Susan B. Anthony quotes

44.) There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. – Susan B. Anthony

45.) To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. – Susan B. Anthony

46.) Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. – Susan B. Anthony

47.) What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. – Susan B. Anthony

48.) …the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ― Susan B. Anthony

49.) I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. ― Susan B. Anthony

50.) We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. ― Susan B. Anthony

Which of these Susan B. Anthony quotes was your favorite?

Although she was opposed and abused, Susan B. Anthony spent much of her life campaigning for equal rights for both women and African Americans. She traveled across the nation in support of women’s suffrage and also campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

Besides, Anthony advocated for women’s labor organizations and for the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings. Hopefully, these Susan B. Anthony quotes have made you treasure your independence.

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Hyperallergic: Botticelli’s Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty

Sandro Botticelli, “The Birth of Venus” (1444 or 1445–1510) (all images courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

In the 1960s, my childhood bedroom was covered with images of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” torn from an art book in my parents’ library. About 20 years later, I encountered the painting itself at the Uffizi in Florence. I was not as preoccupied with the image then, standing in front of it in the museum, as I had been as a young girl, though I still loved it; nor was I as preoccupied with it then as I am now, as I contemplate aging in representation and wonder what a goddess of love, passion, and sex would look like without the bloom of youth.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has brought one version of Botticelli’s Venus to the United States. The exhibition, Botticelli and the Search for the Divine, presents the largest number of the artist’s paintings shown together in America to date — 15 by Botticelli — along with several by Fra Fillipo Lippi, with whom he studied.

My interest in Botticelli began in the 1960s. Interestingly, the images of Venus that I had plastered all over my bedroom bore a resemblance to some of the poster art and album covers I already knew. Botticelli embraced perspective, but his figures remained less volumetric than those of his cohorts. These slightly flattened figures were outlined and painted in pastel colors, which were at home with images of Twiggy and rock and roll posters of Bob Dylan. And of course, the one thing I didn’t know in the ’60s based on those reproductions is that Botticelli’s Venus is nearly life-sized. Confronted with her at the MFA, she looks utterly contemporary. “The Birth of Venus” (which is not in the MFA exhibition), according to the AMA, was the first life-size nude painted in 400 years.

Sandro Botticelli, “Venus” (c. 1484–90), tempera on wood panel

Looking back, one might say that, despite the utopian impulses of the baby boom generation and the strength of the counterculture — which turned out to be an anomaly rather than a generational phenomenon — the Enlightenment was coming to an end. The ’60s were a period of serious social and political upheaval that included the United States government sending 18-year-olds to a small country in Asia to be shot, the civil rights movement gaining momentum, the feminist movement gaining momentum, Paul De Man and Jacques Derrida meeting one another at Johns Hopkins University for the first time and preparing to unleash deconstruction on academia in America, not to mention multiple high-profile assassinations, including that of the president of the United States. If anyone believed there was a linear progression to history, one through which humanity slowly but surely improved, the Holocaust in Europe suggested that this might be wishful thinking. Yet, contrary to what one might have expected, the children of that generation were to become the rebellious and idealistic counterculture: the rock-and-rollers, the hippie commune dwellers, the antiwar protesters. Retrospectively, this looks like the last gasp of belief in incremental but progressive change toward a better future through the attainment of ever greater knowledge, although, ironically, we could argue that the death of Modernism brought with it an opening for the voices that were previously marginalized or silenced and was in fact further progress and an expansion of Enlightenment humanism.

By the time I arrived at graduate school in the early ’80s, beauty was dead and postmodernism had supplanted the idea that a grand narrative with overarching explanatory power was possible or even reasonable. Relativism helped displace the notion that the white European male represented a universal experience. In the arts, deskilling was becoming more prevalent. Conceptual art was often without an object and had an afterlife in offhand black-and-white photographic documentation. It makes sense that the abandonment of beauty would accompany deskilling. Beauty generally, though not exclusively, relied on skill for its creation.

During the Renaissance, painters like Botticelli were influenced by the belief that earthly beauty was connected with the divine. Obviously, the more skilled the artist, the more precisely he or she could imbue an image with a beauty that brought it ever closer to divinity by virtue of beauty alone. Botticelli’s early works were of mythological figures. Yet even with mythology as subject matter, before he came under the influence of the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola and turned to more overtly religious content, the drive to represent Venus or Minerva as beautiful was not only about the viewer’s pleasure but about creating a connection to something mystical, something beyond an actual representation on the panel or canvas.

Sandro Botticelli, “Pallas and the Centaur (1444 or 1445–1510), tempera on canvas

In the post-studio program at Cal-Arts, beauty had become a dirty word. Yet it seems to me that our attraction, as a species, to beauty is somehow hardwired. One suggestive and seductive theory, articulated by philosopher Piero Ferrucci in Beauty and the Soul, is that the actual standards of beauty evolved to help us distinguish ourselves as a species from other species close to us. We now know that homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, so the choice of a high forehead or widely set eyes would encourage us to mate solely with other homo sapiens. Similarly, there are theories that certain types of landscapes became aesthetically pleasing largely because, throughout our evolution, they were key to our survival as a species and therefore came to represent safety as well as comfort. Whatever we choose to believe about this, we should be suspicious that there is something about beauty that is not just pleasurable but immanent in us. It’s hardly an accident that during the Renaissance the idea of beauty was connected to the divine.

There appear to be two extant versions of the Botticelli’s Venus isolated against a black background, in addition to “The Birth of Venus.” I have two photographic reproductions of her painted in this manner. In one, her arms are naked, and in the other, she is wearing a completely diaphanous shirt that is barely noticeable on casual observation. It is this latter version that is on exhibit at the MFA. The wall text reads:

On a narrow parapet, Venus — Roman goddess of love — stands silhouetted against a black background, strongly lit, as if to evoke sculpture. She is nude except for a transparent sleeved garment with a square neckline, parting just below her bust. Her pose comes directly from ancient sculpture and links the work to its immediate source, Botticelli’s famous The Birth of Venus, painted around 1484. Together her beauty and her modest pose express the dual nature of love, as believed at the time: both profane and sacred, sensual love and love for God. Attempting to cover herself, she seems to offer a subliminal warning of the mortal dangers of excessive sensuality. While this particular Venus (and another, now in Berlin) have been attributed directly to Botticelli in the past, some experts today regard then as painted under the master’s supervision by assistants.

While I accept that she is modest, covering her pudenda with a swirl of her head hair, she doesn’t strike me as ashamed of her nakedness. Whether she was painted by Botticelli or under his supervision, this ideal of beauty appears to be the same woman we see in the “The Birth of Venus” and “Minerva and the Centaur” and quite possibly later as Mary with the infant Jesus. It is thought that the inspiration for his Venus was Simonetta Cattaneo. She was the wife of Mario Vespucci and the lover of Julein de Médicis. She died at the age of 27. She was reputedly thought to be the most beautiful woman in the world. It’s interesting to trace Botticelli’s use of this muse through the mythological paintings in which she represents the goddess of love as Venus, wisdom as Minerva, and maternal goodness as Mary. In each case, she represents these ideals through her physical beauty and Botticelli’s ability to render it. In Stephen Greenblatt’s extraordinary book on the Renaissance, The Swerve, he describes the painting of “The Birth of Venus” as one of “hallucinatory vividness” and his Venus as “ravishingly beautiful, emerging from the restless matter of the sea.”

Sandro Botticelli, “Madonna and Child with young Saint John” (1444 or 1445–1510), oil on canvas

If being drawn to beauty inheres in our DNA and helped define us over the course of centuries by keeping interbreeding to a minimum, and if our vision of the beauty of a landscape is tied to our sense of safety, and if we are in fact biologically adapted to that landscape and evolved to be compatible with it, what can we make of the current ugliness not only in politics but in the endless scarring and polluting of that landscape? Have we evolved in its image only to destroy what we have spent centuries evolving to adapt to?

This exhibition of Botticelli’s paintings, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our current deplorable political moment. It serves as a reminder that we need beauty, that we rely on it and that it is a part of us, even if right now that is particularly difficult to see.

Botticelli and the Search for the Divine continues at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston) through July 9.

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