Quote#Kindness
I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are…
Quote bySusan B. Anthony · 1820–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speaking on March 24, 1896, as quoted in "Suffragists Hold a Parlor Meeting; Mrs. Austin Perry Opens Her Home; A Talk by Miss Anthony," San Francisco Chronicle (March 25, 1896), p. 8.
English (original)
I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good fathers, kind brothers and have married the best of men, who do not believe that husband and wife are one and he is the one.
— Susan B. Anthony
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