Alice Paul Quotes

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Women stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

…if civilization is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society.

Women will vote by 1917.

I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

My own adhesion to the Suffrage Cause was given largely because I saw that only through political equality may we hope to see established a true understanding and a happier relationship between the sexes.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The emancipation of women was one of the central issues In the renewal of the Italian state and of the Italian society.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

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.

I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

Women have always run the world; maybe it's time to give them a chance at ruling it.

What few realize is the unique role the North Country of New York played in advancing women's rights in the United States.

Since finding out my great-great-grandma was connected to the suffragettes, I've learned so much more about them. I feel really proud of her and that it's my heritage.