| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18379 |
| QUOTATION: | I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Crystal Eastman (1881–1928), U.S. social/political activist and author. Quoted in an article by Elisabeth Smith, which was reprinted in the appendix to this edition of Eastman’s writings: “Feminist for Equality, Not ‘Women as Women’,” New York Telegram and Evening Mail (October 31, 1924). On Women and Revolution, Appendix (1978).
Eastman was secretary of the Women for Congress Campaign Committee of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) and was explaining that she supported the NWP’s candidates only because they were capable people and because the NWP strongly backed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution (which was never passed). Only four years earlier, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution had taken effect, enfranchising American women after a 72-year struggle for suffrage. |
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