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"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it."
"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."
"Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
"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."
"Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve."
"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
"To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote."
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row."
"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."
"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."
"Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
"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."
"Food simply isn't important to me."