Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. Ellen Carol DuBois - USA, 1989 The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it. Ghada Samman, writer 1961, Syria If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher 1989, England Pay heed to the word of your Mother as though it were the word of a God. Anonymous To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. Anna Pavlova 1885-1931, Russia Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being. Ibsen, The Dolls House 1879, Norway The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. - Louise Otto, (Luise Otto-Peters), German feminist, 1849 Otto was a novelist writing about class prejudice, and an idealist concerned with the emancipation of women. In the 1848 revolution, she demanded full equality for women, including the vote. History...tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome. - Jane Austen (1775-1817), from her book: Northanger Abbey If Jane Austen were alive today, shed see that history is finally changing! Aparna Basu - Professor of History at the University of Delhi, India, says: History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Womens history is an assertion that women have a history. Now that you have touched the women you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. Womens Freedom Song, August, 1956 Womens Freedom Song, South Africa, 1956 There is nothing new except what has been forgotten, Marie Antoinette 1755-1793, France Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie 1867-1934,Poland/France Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. Ellen Carol DuBois - USA, 19
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