We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
From Jeannette Rankin
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.
If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
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