Suffragette Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old suffragette quotes, suffragette sayings, and suffragette proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Lucretia Mott
Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend. Emmeline Pankhurst
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. Carrie Chapman Catt
I'm not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says “feminism” means, is enough to make a revolution in itself. Gloria Steinem
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. Lucy Burns
The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves. Sarah Gavron
Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! Jennifer Worth
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered. Marianne Williamson
Trust in God: She will provide. Emmeline Pankhurst
The subjection of women, if there be such a thing, will not now depend on any creation of the law, not can it be remedied by any action of the law. It will never again be possible to blame the soveriegn state for any position of inequality. Women will have, with us, the fullest rights. The ground and justification for the old agitation is gone, and gone for ever. Stanley Baldwin
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. Sojourner Truth
I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion. Emmeline Pankhurst
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B. Anthony
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. Delphine de Girardin
The rights we want: We want to choose our husband We want to own land We want to go to school We don't want to be cut anymore We want to make decisions We want respect in politics, to be leaders We want to be equal. Rebecca Lolosoli
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. Clara Zetkin
If Congress refuses to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull
The suffragettes were all about speaking up, screaming for their rights. You can't speak up for your right to be silent. Laurie Halse Anderson
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government? Kishida Toshiko
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman… Nature provides exceptions to every rule. Margaret Fuller
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Ernestine L. Rose
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half. Emmeline Pankhurst
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. Carrie Chapman Catt
Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself. Matilda Joslyn Gage
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. Susan B. Anthony
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. Emmeline Pankhurst
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Abigail Adams