Sarah Gavron Quotes

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!

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

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

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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

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.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Women stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

I know that you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do.

Women voting is like prostitution.

In the history of Western countries, democratization began despite the existing patriarchy. Gender equality can be seen as an effect, rather than a cause or necessary condition, of democratization.

Even after women got the vote in 1920, the idea that they stood for home and family helped to keep them from being seen as politically dangerous in the way that working men and male minorities were.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

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.

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.