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


Susan B. Anthony

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SUSAN VREELAND Somewhat, lawbreakers are lawmakers for they give lawmakers real reasons to make and strengthen laws
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right ...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
ALICE PAUL There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of w...
HANAN ASHRAWI Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben...
ELAYNE BOOSLER If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can b...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY A world without women can never be complete
SOTONYE ANGA I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that...
P. J. O'ROURKE Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
MICHELLE BACHELET I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptio...
CHERIE BLAIR Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and ...
STEPHEN LEWIS Until the investigation is complete there will be nothing that is final at this point.
BRENT WILLIAMS People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find mys...
HENRY ROLLINS His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants ha...
JAMES BARRIE His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants ha...
JAMES M. BARRIE There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Lawmakers need to be better stewards of policy and update it, not just keep adding on top of old law...
SUZAN DELBENE I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...
JIMMY CARTER Women are more driven...motivated to go out there and make something of themselves.
DENISE WHITE You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
BILL COSBY The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equali...
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only he...
AMIT KALANTRI The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorat...
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REBECCA TRAISTER I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, ...
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RUTH BERNHARD It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
DREW BARRYMORE Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave po...
DON WILLETT Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
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PETER SCHUYLER We need to decrease front-loading, increase diversity, recognize Iowa and New Hampshire laws and tra...
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We ...
MARINE LE PEN Men and women are what they make of themselves.
SETH ADAM SMITH Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the wome...
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete
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A. E. HOUSMAN To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never...
ANITA BROOKNER It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's ha...
DIANA AVIV Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
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ASHLEY RICE There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
DORIS LESSING I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute...
BERENICE ABBOTT I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'G...
FINN JONES At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences wh...
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JOHN GREEN American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
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B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
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B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
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B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
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B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS