Causes Quote by Ellen DuBois

The women's suffrage movement was the gateway that led to women having the opportunities to achieve monumental milestones and accomplish significant achievements in both…

— Karen Pence

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of…

— Winston Churchill

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by…

— Catharine Beecher

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality…

— Louis D. Brandeis

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just…

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

— Jessie Daniel Ames

“It may be said that because woman recognizes the awful toll she is made to pay to the Church, State, and the home, she…

— Emma Goldman

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

— Victoria Woodhull