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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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.
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If I could only live another century!
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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.
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