Ballot/history

Famous quotes containing the words ballot and/or history:

“Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do not scorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)