Margaret Mary Morgan, U.S. suffragist, print shop owner, and politician, was the first woman ever elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Upon leaving office, she is quoted as saying, "Remember, a woman has to work harder than a man and have more patience in order to achieve success"
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“Soaked by the sparkling waters of America.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2740, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“The woman may serve as a vehicle for the rapist expressing his rage against a world that gives him pain—because he is poor, or oppressed, or mad, or simply human. Then what of her? We have waded in the swamp of compassion for him long enough.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)