Woman Suffrage Association

Famous quotes containing the words woman, suffrage and/or association:

    “I did not know the woman I would be
    nor that blood would bloom in me
    each month like an exotic flower,
    nor that children,
    two monuments,
    would break from between my legs....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the “white male” into a nice pickle.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Revolution (August 19, 1869)

    “An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)