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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
Abolitionist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Suffragist
Adams
Massachusetts
Susan Brownell
Susan Brownnell Anthony
Susan Anthony
Pulpit
Worst
Enemy
Women
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... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
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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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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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