Frances A. Griffin

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    [Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.
    Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    ...I want men
    to take us seriously.
    I am tired wanting them to think
    about right and wrong.
    I want them to fear.
    —Susan Griffin (b. 1943)