"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
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"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."
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"Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself."
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"I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully."
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"God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down."
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"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value."
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"It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct."
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"Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette."
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"What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?"
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"[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50."
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"I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice."
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"And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?"
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"Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace."
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"But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul."
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"Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth."
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"I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do."
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"The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote."
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"I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it."
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"It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl."
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"Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation."
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