Stories of Women's Suffrage Quotes

“It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union.”
—Susan B. Anthony”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”
—Carrie Chapman Catt”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

“However, Elizabeth had the minister remove the words “to obey” from her wedding vows, saying, “I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relation.”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.”
—Emmaline Pankhurst”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”
—Carrie Chapman Catt”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

“So, when my attention was called to these [offensive] laws, I would mark them with a pencil, and I resolved to cut every one of them out of the books. However, this mutilation of my father’s volumes was never accomplished, for the housekeeper warned him of what I proposed to do.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
― Charlotte Guillain, Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!