“What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.” IfsLawVoicePoorClassRightsFashionHonorMereEnterpriseWealthyWomens RightsAvenuesDollsPuppetsParlorBreaking The Law Author:Ernestine Rose
“It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.” IfsMenUseGovernmentLawAcceptingSupportTaxesLettersConstitutionProofCriminalsVersionsConsistentMeant To BeWomens RightsPenaltiesTaxationMasculineHornsViolationProvisionDilemmaWere Meant To BeCriminal LawPronouns Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.” MenLawCapableMen And WomenSexismWomens Rights Author:Nellie L. McClung
“I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.” YearsStillsWarLawRightsYears AgoDiscriminationDenialZoneWomens RightsWar ZonesPracticing Law Author:Gloria Allred
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard