Equality League, and she opened Marble House, whose furniture was still shrouded in dust covers, to suffragist planning meetings. Purple-and-gold banners unfurled in the grand summer house bearing a quote from Susan B. Anthony (whom Alva would later disparage as insufficiently radical): “Failure Is Impossible.” A stint in Europe left her believing that American suffragists were being too meek in their demands. The time had come to stop asking men to give them favors. The time had come to remake entirely how men saw women.
