Quotes About Alice Paul

#1. This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Alice Paul

#2. It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so ... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

Alice Paul

#3. The discussions in our house at Hachsharah were so intense that nobody could convince the other side that their position was in error - just like all political debates before and since.

Jack Prins

#4. I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Food simply isn't important to me.

Alice Paul

#6. If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

Sally Robinson

#7. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Alice Paul

#8. I always feel....the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Alice Paul

#9. Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Paul

#10. Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#11. There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Alice Paul

#12. It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

Alice Paul

#13. When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

#14. Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

Alice Paul

#15. I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)

Ann Brashares

#16. If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#17. I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

#18. My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Michelle Paver

#19. We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves.

Marty Rubin

#20. You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

Mark Rippetoe

#21. Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

Jose Saramago

#22. Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

Alice Paul

#23. Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

Alice Paul

#24. In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#25. Alice suspected Paul couldn't really picture his father, just like she couldn't picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Ann Brashares

#26. We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Alice Paul

#27. The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

Alice Paul