Anthony was very successful in solving the issues of women's rights and suffrage. While Anthony and Stanton certainly pioneered the 19th Amendment, which allowed for women's suffrage, they made little progress during their lifetimes. In New York, where Anthony campaigned statewide from 1853 to 1860, lecturing, petitioning, and lobbying legislators for women's rights. Finally, in 1860, the state legislature passed the New York State Married Women's Property Bill, which allowed women to have custody of their children and to own property and money (Susan B. Anthony House). Similar bills were soon passed across the country. Anthony was also respected by many people for his eloquence, determination and diligence. One of the women in Rochester, where Anthony lived for part of her life, reportedly said: “No, I am not a convert to what [the suffragettes] stand for. I'm too much of a coward for that; but I am converted to Susan B. Anthony” (Weisberg 19) Anthony was so influential and important in the suffrage movement that some people even thought that the suffrage movement might disappear after her