"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."
"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."
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Source: The Women’s Deliberation Movement by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.
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