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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, ch. 46, by Ida Husted Harper (1898).

Anthony said this in 1896; she would live for ten more years, but would begin to suffer health problems and reduced capacity for work within four years.

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