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Susan B. Anthony 48
American women's rights activist 1820–1906Related quotes

“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
Bk. 14, ch. 1
Corinne (1807)

Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the Nation
“I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144

[Martha Mitchell, Saturday Evening Post, Fall 1971, 243, 2, 50-53]