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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Susan B. Anthony

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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Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Equality Feminism One Liner Women Rights
The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
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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Cruel Die Liberty Struggle Thinking
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Cause Disconnection Feminism Men Nation Rebell Revolution Women
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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Approval Conscience Convention Forget Place Speak Step Thinking Words World
When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Government Poor Rule Work
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Debt Freedom Impulse Religion Woman
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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Change Disconnection Try
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Doll Marriage Poverty She Young
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Accident Birth Cast Class Color Government Incident Individual Principle Race Racism Regard Scare Sex Violation
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Gratitude Greateful Job Women Young
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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Bicycle Picture Rejoice Ride Stand Time Wheel Woman
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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Different Feminism Reception Rose Throw
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Earn Equality Estimate Willing World

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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