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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.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
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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. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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.
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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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Failure is impossible.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
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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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... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
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