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“What is treated as of no value is apt to grow valueless”

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Author:Barbara Bodichon

“I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.”

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Book:The Woman's Hour

Source: The Woman's Hour

“If she is one of the most valuable of the nation’s citizens she should have a voice in its affairs”

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Author:Constance Smedley

“They have beautified and decorated the shrine, but they have kept it empty of the divinity which gave a significance to the paraphenaila of the shrine”

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Author:Emily Wilding Davidson

“Well, we are showing them that government does not rest upon force at all: it rests upon consent”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“My great-aunt, and other people's great-aunts, won all the rights that women need ages ago. All that's been lacking since then is the social courage to use them. My great-aunt and the rest thought that by technically defeating male privilege they'd scored a great victory. What they didn't realize is that the greatest enemies of women aren't men at all, they are women: silly women, lazy women, and smug women.”

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Book:Trouble with Lichen

Source: Trouble with Lichen

“The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.”

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Author:Jeannette Rankin

“The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.”

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Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.”

“The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”

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Author:Winston Churchill