Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBe the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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