American - Activist | January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977
When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
Alice Paul
YouDoneYoungNeverHardAnything
The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
WillPresidentSomethingUsAgain
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
MenSimpleGovernmentMeLookVote
It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
BeautifulMeWorldYouMayInstinct
Food simply isn't important to me.
FoodMeImportantSimply
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
SocietySmallBelieveBetterVote
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.
FeelAlwaysMovementMosaicSort
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.
WomenTodayWorldCrisisAnything
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
BookSeemsJustAlmostReadEvery
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
WantPoliticiansCorruptsOnlyMany
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
WomenBusinessPowerGovernmentNew
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.
MeGoAheadEatMeatSee
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