Elise Stefanik Quotes

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

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.

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.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

We do not know whether the present House of Commons will be prepared to do justice to women. A few months ago there can be little doubt that it would, and nothing that has since happened supplies any adequate reason for a change of purpose. The follies and excesses of a small section of women, deeply resented and regretted by the vast majority of women, ought not to be allowed to weigh in the balance against a claim which has been admitted to be just.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

The great majority of their sex do not want the ballot, and that to force it upon them would not only be an injustice to women, but would lessen their influence for good.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Republican Party began to pave the way for women's suffrage decades earlier.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

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.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.