We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year ...or two, at farthest, it would be granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesn't have the patience and wants the... leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of power for effective action, the kno...wledge that their own thoughts have an equal chance with those of any other person ... this is what has always rendered the men of a free state so energetic, so acutely intelligent, so powerful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximated ...to equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitute... a political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most prim...itive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... spinsterhood [is considered to be] an abnormality of small proportions and small consequence, something like an extra finger o...r two on the body, presumably of temporary duration, and never of any social significance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as hav...ing sex, and nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--...that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,...--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »