Pacifism Quote by Bertrand Russell

there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as…

— Christabel Pankhurst

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

— Zainab Salbi

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent to war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable?”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of…

— Grover Cleveland

“When I was sixteen, I wrote an essay about why women should remain barred from combat in the U.S. military. I found it recently…

— Kameron Hurley

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages…

— Louisa Lawson

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

— Gail Collins

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

— Oveta Culp Hobby