Empowering Quotes / Suffragists

“Defeat first…victory by and by.” -Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by April Young Bennett · Published December 16, 2021 · Updated November 7, 2021

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, launching in Spring 2019.

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April Young Bennett

April Young Bennett is the author of the Ask a Suffragist book series, host of the Religious Feminism Podcast and a writer for the Exponent II. For more information about April, see aprilyoungb.com

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