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

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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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We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

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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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I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

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