Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was a Quaker-raised abolitionist, temperance worker, and the organizational engine of the American woman-suffrage movement, working for decades alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1860 the two pushed the National Woman’s Rights Convention to take up divorce-law reform — a stance so controversial that even allies like Wendell Phillips recoiled, the context to which this quotation is usually tied. Anthony’s own words survive mainly in her diaries, letters, the newspaper The Revolution, and Ida Husted Harper’s authorized biography.