37 Quotes by Alice Paul

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

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.

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.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!