Katharine Hepburn Quotes
I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
Hepburn, Katharine. Me: Stories of My Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
To support the war effort, the most militant suffragettes ceased anti Government militancy. The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacifism. See {621266} for the anti-war factional view.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
Woodrow Wilson had just finished speaking to the convention – see {638532}. This statement was thought be some to be insulting to the President who said he favored the right of women to vote, but did very little if anything to make that happen. Although Shaw was an ordained Methodist Minister, the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to allow her to preach because of her suffrage views.
Although born and educated in the United States, she lived mostly in England and was politically active there.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
She was then an invalid trying to recover from the toll of all her work at the front lines of wars had taken. The men she had so helped, did not return the gesture when it came to voting, She did not live to see women get the vote in America.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, she cultivated a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.
