Suffragette

🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

🇺🇸Alice Paul

Social Activism

feminism

1885–1977

"You didn’t have to be a good speaker, because the minute you began, you were arrested."

🇺🇸Jane Addams

Social Activism

socialism

1860–1935

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

🇺🇸Mary Abigail Dodge

Literature

1833–1896

"Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest."

🇩🇪Clara Zetkin

Politics

1857–1933

"Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must."

🇺🇸Ernestine Rose

Social Activism

atheism

1810–1892

"Ernestine Rose: A Defence of Atheism: A lecture delivered in Mercantile Hall, Boston on 10 April, 1861, Published in 1881."

🇬🇧Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics

1858–1928

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

🇬🇧Rebecca West

Literature

1892–1983

"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."

Frances Power Cobbe

Social Activism

1822–1904

"We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue."