Happy 188th Birthday!

[susankh4]

to Susan B Anthony! 2/15/1820

Some of my favorite quotes of Miss Anthony's:

"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."

"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."

"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."

"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."

and of course, the most famous one:

"Failure is impossible."

[niyad]

1. thank you!

posted a tribute in GD, glad to see I don't need to repost here.

years ago, when I was running a women's center, we decided to have a birthday party for her. the cake decorator at the store wanted to know if I wanted pink roses on the cake. he did, however, get the suffragist colours exactly right.