Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan B. Anthony

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

Susan B. Anthony

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Susan B. Anthony

We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

Susan B. Anthony

It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

Susan B. Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.

Susan B. Anthony

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Brian Clough

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Bret Harte

Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.

Bret Harte

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Bret Harte

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Brent Weeks

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Brent Weeks

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Brent Weeks

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Brent Weeks

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Brent Weeks

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

Brent Weeks

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Brent Weeks

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Bret Easton Ellis

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Brand Blanshard

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Brand Blanshard

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Brandi Chastain

I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

Branch Rickey

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Branch Rickey

There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.

Branch Rickey

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Bram Stoker

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Bram Stoker

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Bram Stoker

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Bram Stoker

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.