We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
From Alice Paul
Food simply isn't important to me.
When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
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.
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.
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.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
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.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.
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