“I would like to make motherhood a governmental institution. I would pension all mothers and have them provided for first to last by the State. I believe that motherhood should be independent of any man.”

— The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), president of the National Suffrage Association for ten years

“The home of today is a permanent check on the growth of humanity.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), suffrage leader and lecturer

Inez Milholland Boissevain leading a suffrage march in Washington, D.C.

“It certainly will not be long before the influx to the voting ranks of these millions of younger women whose impressions are being formed in the more alert, stirring air of today will bring the real issue more sharply before us; and it is to be assumed that the institutions most likely to be changed are the home and marriage itself.”

— Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916); “The Suffragist” magazine, Dec. 23, 1916

(Thanks to Terry Morris)

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