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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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

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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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No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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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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