Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth, anderson, suffrage and/or movement:
“...we avoid hospitals because ... theyll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like Exhibit A and Exhibit B. Like, Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, shes in such good shape.... . Most of the time they dont even treat you like a person, just an object.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“I dont want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)
“... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (18001878)
“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realitiesa willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forcesa movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)