All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists,” as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men – women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure – and advocated instead women’s full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.
-Jill Lepore
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