Alice Paul
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.Collection: Women
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.Collection: Women
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.Collection: Peace
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.Collection: Women
Food simply isn't important to me.Collection: Food
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.Collection: Women
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.Collection: Society
It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.Collection: Women
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.Collection: Business
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.Collection: Business
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.Collection: Government
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.Collection: Equality
The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.Collection: Women
I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.Collection: Family
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.
It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.Collection: Fighting
Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.Collection: Fighting
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.Collection: Women
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.Collection: Equality
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.Collection: Abortion
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.Collection: Sex
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.Collection: Men