Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

The remark expresses Anthony’s characteristic long-view impatience: she recognizes that social reform—especially women’s political and civic equality—unfolds over generations, and she laments that her own lifespan will not be long enough to witness the full results. The “another century” wish underscores both the scale of the project and her awareness of incremental progress: victories won in her lifetime (organizing, consciousness-raising, partial legal reforms) still leave structural inequities intact. The closing sentence, “There is so much yet to be done,” frames women’s rights not as a single-issue campaign (such as suffrage alone) but as an ongoing program of legal, economic, and cultural transformation requiring sustained collective effort beyond any one leader.