- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). Her birthday, February 15, is often celebrated along with Valentine’s Day. This portrait in her study (ca. 1900) shows her surrounded by photos of many friends from her abolition, temperance, and women's rights campaigns. She had incredible reserves of courage and energy, demonstrated in a political career of more than 50 years. In Europe, aged 63, she said in her diary: “Breakfast was sent to my room and, for the first time in my life, I ate it in bed. What would my mother have said?” Her last public appearance was at a party for her 86th birthday, where she told the 400 guests: “Failure is impossible.”
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