Alice Paul Quotes

Everybody knows what the women of all the warring countries did during the great conflict. [World War I] In Great Britain and France especially, and to a lesser extent in the United States, they took over almost every trade formerly sacred to men.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Women are the real architects of society.

Fascism recognizes women as a part of the life force of the country, laying down a division of duties between the two sexes, without putting obstacles in the way of those women who by their intellectual gifts can reach the highest positions.

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation …

Women are a great civilizing force in any society and when they are repressed things don’t work very well.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

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!

The tender breasts of women were not made for political convulsions.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

Well men have been engaged in this tomfoolery long enough and the Good Lord has seen fit to start having women engage in it also.

if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation [America], I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

It is a crime against humanity that our women are confined within the four walls of their homes like prisoners. They should stand side by side with men as their companions in all spheres of life.

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

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.