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The fact that warring nations met and discussed the war problems sanely and in friendship while all their male relatives were out shooting each other is to my mind a great and significant event in history…

— Crystal Eastman

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation more than having everyone admit that it is fundamentally right.

It takes an exceedingly large-minded liberal to fight for the right of another man to say exactly what he himself does not want said.

If the feminist program goes to pieces at the arrival of the first baby, it is false and useless.

The question of woman suffrage is not one that should be cluttering up twentieth century affairs. It belongs back in the eighteenth century.

Seriously, does anyone suppose that love-making has gone out of fashion in California, or marriage fallen off in Wyoming, or the birth rate decreased in Colorado as a result of woman suffrage?

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