I hope that one day people will look back on my legacy and say,
"Susan Brockwell Anthony was such an incredible woman." Since the
time I was born, February 15, 1820, I've always tried to achieve the best.
Growing up a Quacker in Adams, Massachusetts, I was always guide to
esteem highly, my father was the main influence of this philosophy in my
life. He was an extremely strict Quacker abolitionist who enforced
self-discipline, moral principals and a strong belief of what you are worth.
In 1826 my parents, Daniel and Lucy, decided to move to Battensville,
After arriving there I soon learned that I was very ostentatious. So
much so that my father started "home schooling" because I wanted my
teacher to instruct me in long division and she refused. At home I was
taught by a nice woman named Mary Perkins who showed my sisters and
myself new ways to view the treatment of woman in society.
When I grew up, I attended a Philadelphia suburb boarding school
from 1846 to about 1849. After I was consummated with school, I settled
into the family home in Rochester and began to join the Temperance
The Temperance Movement, The Revolution, and the National
Woman Suffrage Association were set up to finally have equal rights for
women. I also organized many state campaigns for woman's equality.
The Revolution was a magazine I published from 1868 to 1870 basically
speaking of equality for women. I simply wanted to speak about equal
pay for equal work and forming more women unions. In the end I had to
lecture for six years to pay off the $100,000 debt I accumulated by
After the printing of my magazine cease many important things
happened to me. One substantial event was about my voting in the
presidential election adventure in New York. I attempted to
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