Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

We have much participation of women in Afghanistan politics. Yet 86 percent of the women are illiterate. I and the women who come before you are not typical of women in our country.

Add to the voting constituency [of New York State] one million educated women who can read and write the English language. Then women will be respected, for power always commands respect.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.

War they [women] understand least, and from it they instinctively recoil. There is danger in this situation. Women now have the vote, and they outnumber the men.... In spite of themselves we must protect the ladies!

Let’s face it, votes for women means votes for liberals.

Women voting is like prostitution.

I claim, and fear no contradiction, that the women of this land are better qualified to exercise the suffrage with intelligence, honesty and patriotism than were any other class of citizens in the world at the time when it was conferred upon them.

Today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively representing freedom—and yet all free, save woman

Voting means very little…if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right. Not one wife in a thousand can do that now, & so long as she suffers this bondage, all other rights will not help her to her true position.

The suffrage movement knows no politics...It will be granted to us as a matter of expediency; for don't you believe each party wants to make a bid for the vote that is sure to come?

Possibly the presence of women as voters would tend still further to promote order than has been done by the ballot …. If men choose to say that women are not their equals, women have nothing to do but to give in. Physical force, the ultimate basis of all society and all government, must be on the side of the men; and those who have the key of the position will not consent permanently to abandon it.

The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.