Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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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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To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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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. 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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

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