Spent the eve in Downtown Spartanburg with 70+ women celebrating Susan B. Anthony’s 190th birthday. Good times.  

That’s JUST what Spartanburg and SC needs. Smart women…organized smart women coming together to effect social change. Oh, how I love it. :)

In honor of her birthday…a few great Susan B. quotes…we must always remember where we've been and where we STILL are.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she shafes under a government that tolerates it.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

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.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Amen Sister! Happy Birthday! And thank you…for standing up when making a stand wasn’t so easy. It’s easier now but still difficult. We will keep pushing forward. Hard. Always remembering those who came before us.

Promise.

:) t