The individual woman is ...

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
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 Jeannette Rankin

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The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
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 Jeannette Rankin
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
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 Jeannette Rankin