Active Quote by Millicent Fawcett

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

— Norman Mailer

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

— Millicent Fawcett

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I…

— Adrienne Rich

“One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. "No advanced…

— Rebecca Solnit

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great…

— Ellen DuBois

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

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good…

— Teresa Wright

... 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

“To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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