The Women's March Quotes

“Votes for Women” meant “Votes for Black Women.” It had to, or Ida and her daughters and her people would find themselves drawn ever backward into the injustices of the past—if not into slavery itself, then into something barely distinguishable from it.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“She [Ida] would march as an equal or not at all. If she accepted segregation now, if she accepted second-class status now, if she settled for less than she deserved or agreed to relinquish any of her inalienable rights now, what would white suffragists expect her to sacrifice tomorrow?

...If her ostensible allies refused to acknowledge her right to march with them as an equal, how could she expect them to recognize her as an equal at the polls?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“Suffrage women would never be taken seriously if they obsessed over petty personal quarrels. Men and Antis loved to contend that women were too jealous and competitive to work together to any common purpose, which was one more reason why they should not be entrusted with the vote.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“Miss Bronson did express bewilderment about why we find it necessary to adopt the methods, manners, and attributes of men,” Elizabeth acknowledged, “and she made quite a passionate case for why it is impossible for women to work for the betterment of mankind and to vote as well. We can do one or the other, but not both.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“Isn’t it bad enough that men oppose us, without having to endure this betrayal by other women?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“It particularly irked Maud that the culprits were reportedly privileged women who haughtily insisted that they did not need the vote and didn’t want any other woman to have it either. If they didn’t want to exercise an inherent right of citizenship, that was their business, but why must they prevent Maud from doing so?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“...although Ida freely shared her views, she was troubled by the implicit suggestion that she spoke for all Black women, or indeed for the entire race. No white person would accept the notion that one person out of millions represented them all, but they seemed to assume that was true for people of color.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“What has he [Mr. Wilson] done? He continues to dodge the question when asked to express an opinion about woman suffrage, and historically, his misogyny has been thinly veiled at best. He’s filling his cabinet with avowed segregationists. Worse yet, he believes that slavery was a beneficial, civilizing influence on Africans and their American descendants.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“To be fair, many ladies of the leisure class fought for equal suffrage precisely because they knew that increased political power would benefit the less fortunate, but far too many considered only how the vote would help women like themselves.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“It was an unfortunate truth that working women could not devote themselves exclusively to the suffrage movement the way that women with independent fortunes, generous parents, or indulgent husbands did. Ironically, those who had to schedule their work for the cause around their work for wages needed the ballot even more urgently because their circumstances were more precarious.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“...the suffrage movement could not be the province of wealthy white women alone, or the achievements they made—ostensibly on behalf of all women—might benefit only themselves.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“ON OCTOBER 19 AT A MEETING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, THE DEFENDANT GOT UP IN HER PLACE AND ASKED MR. WILSON, “WHAT ABOUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE?” SHE WAS THROWN OUT AND ARRESTED. MEN HAVE ALWAYS QUESTIONED CANDIDATES AT POLITICAL MEETINGS. WHY NOT WOMEN?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

“Woman suffrage, madam, is not a question for the federal government. It is a matter for the states.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession