“There is an odd side to all reformers, to all who are pursuing a new idea earnestly, that is very whimsical.” -Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895 Happy birthday to Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to...
“All I ask for myself I claim for my wife and sister. Let our action be based upon the rock of everlasting principle. No class of citizens in this country can be deprived of...
“Women, revolt at the idea of marrying for the sake of a home, for the sake of a support—of marrying the purse instead of the man. …Teach our daughters that they are as much...
“‘Agitate! Agitate!’ ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation — the one is life, the other death.” Ernestine Rose, March 28, 1860 Happy birthday to Ernestine Polowsky Rose, born...
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.” –Lucretia Mott, 1849 Happy birthday to Lucretia Mott, born January 3, 1793. Lucretia Mott is one...
“Let the hearts of the women of the world respond to the song of the herald angels of peace on earth and good will to men. Let them throb as one heart unified by...
Happy birthday to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of many great male feminists from history, born December 22, 1823. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is one of the suffragists featured in the first Ask a Suffragist book,...
“I have been derisively called a ‘Woman Rights Man.’ I know no such distinction. I claim to be a Human Rights Man; and wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent...
“All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.” –Sarah Grimké,...
“We shall not be in our prime before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told Susan B. Anthony in 1857. She was 41...
“There are seasons, my medical brother and sister, that team with power, when minds mingling for the first time produce electrical action. Lose those moments, wait for a more convenient time, it never comes.”...
“Resolved, that the ballot, alike unto the woman and the negro, means bread, education, intelligence, self-protection, self-reliance and self-respect.” -American Equal Rights Association (AERA), New York City Convention, Dec. 7, 1866 That’s what...
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