Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1820, she was an American feminist, suffragette, human rights defender and writer who played an important role in the fight for women's rights and the right to vote for women in the 19th century in the United States.

She was president of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, an organization she created with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Its aim was to show that women were capable of being united on the sole basis of their womanhood or the condition of being a woman. Its success was such that in 1925 it brought together thirty-six million women belonging to feminist associations from all countries.

Susan Anthony and 14 other women managed to register for the 1872 presidential election and vote. They were arrested a week later for voting illegally.

She traveled several thousand miles across the United States and Europe giving 75 to 100 speeches per year on suffrage and women's right to vote for about 45 years. She traveled in carriages, wagons, trains, mules, bicycles, stagecoaches, ferries, and sometimes sledges.

Currently, her remains are buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery.

Childhood

Susan Anthony was born into a liberal Quaker family. She was the second of seven children of Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Besides Susan, the family had four other girls and two boys. Although Anthony's parents were relatively liberal, they were strict about raising their children. Children in the family were not allowed to play with toys or play games. Instead, they had to seek from an early age the "inner light" of the Quaker religion, a kind of enlightenment. Anthony was able to read and write at the age of three.

In 1826, the family moved to Battenville, New York, where six-year-old Anthony began studying. In addition to her studies, she worked with her father in a cotton factory.

At school, Anthony was in trouble because a district teacher refused to teach him dividing point, because the teacher didn't think it was suitable for girls.

When she learned of her daughter's lack of education, Anthony's father, Daniel, created a private school for her children and hired a young teacher, Mary Perkins, to teach them. Mary Perkins, offered Anthony a role model of femininity and encouraged her belief in equality between women and men.

In 1837, Anthony was sent to a boarding school in Pennsylvania. In the same year, she was forced to interrupt her studies due to family financial problems. Due to the recession of 1837, Anthony had lost almost all of her property and there was a lot of debt. Two years later, Anthony was forced to take over as a teacher and help pay off her family's debts.

First, Anthony worked at Eunice Kenyon's Friends Seminary, but in 1846 he moved to the Canajohari Academy. In Canajohari, she was promoted to rector of the women's division. The teaching profession revealed to Anthony the difference in pay between men and women.

The male teacher earned roughly five times more than the teacher, which inspired Anthony to fight the gender pay gap and began demanding salary improvements from the Academy. As a result of her objections, Anthony was fired from the academy in 1849, and subsequently ended her teaching career.

Anthony joined various anti-slavery and abstinence organizations in the 1850s. After leaving her teaching job in 1849, Anthony had gone on to become the secretary of an organization called "Daughters of Abstinence" (in English. Daughters of Temperance ). She began to speak out against alcohol abuse and brought the organization to the attention of the general public.

Two years later, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another activist and activist for women's rights. Together they worked in the abstinence movement, but Stanton wanted a broader and more radical approach to women's rights.

Anthony disagreed, but despite that, they traveled across the United States to talk about gender equality. Since Stanton was married and a mother of seven, she couldn't travel as much as Anthony, a family member who often traveled alone.

For her part, Stanton wrote home speeches and articles on the status of women.

In 1848, a conference on women's rights was held in Seneca Falls, New York, chaired by Elizabeth Stanton. It was the first of its kind, and is often called the birthplace of feminism.

In 1852, Anthony herself attended another meeting, this time in Syracuse, New York. During the Syracuse Conference, Anthony was sensitized to the public as a strong advocate and representative of the women's movement.

Four years after lat Syracuse meeting, Anthony joined an anti-slavery organization. He saw the similarities between African American slavery and the status of women and tried to get the two organizations to work together. Speaking at the Ninth National Women's Convention, Anthony questioned the superior position of the white man in society, invoking the Constitution of the United States. The result was an "equal footing" rights association (in English. The Equal Rights Association), which led both to black women.

From time to time, Anthony wrote about the abortion he opposed, for which he accused the men of law and double standards. She said she had an abortion because there was no other option.

According to Anthony, the woman who had used the abortion had been harmed.

This is a biography that I personally like, it is for me the model of how a woman should be raised, with the ideology of equality rooted in her mind, who feels that she has the ability to change the world, on the other hand I am not in Agree with her regarding the abortion, but what did you think?