Forgotten Women
January 26, 2022
Mary Ellison Embroidering, Mary Cassat; 1877
“WE feel that our present duties fill up the whole of our time and abilities, and that they are such as none but ourselves can perform…. Our fathers and brothers love us. Our husbands are our choice and are one with us. Our sons are what we make of them. We are content that they represent us in the corn field, the battle field and the jury box, and we them in the church, in the school room, at the fireside, and at the cradle. Believing our representation even at the ballot box to be thus more full and impartial than it could possibly be were all women allowed to vote, we do therefore respectfully protest against legislation to establish women’s suffrage in Ohio.”
— Statement of 100 women protesting women’s suffrage, c. 1890, Louvain, Ohio
