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Interviews with Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
From the book Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller, 1915

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Interviews with Celebrated Anti-Suffragists

"WOMAN'S place is in my home."-Appius Claudius.

"I have never felt the need of the ballot."-Cleopatra.

"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."-King John.

"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly incapable of self-government."-George III.

"Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."-President of the United Slaveholders' Protective Association.


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About this book: In 1915, the state-by-state battle for suffrage had won a few battles. Supporters of woman suffrage had multiplied, which also brought anti-suffrage sentiments to the surface to counter the suffrage arguments.

The author of this volume of feminist humor and satire, Alice Duer Miller, wrote many of the pieces for her column in the New York Tribune, "Are Women People?" She also wrote a sequel, published in 1917, Women Are People!

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