A writer of the early 20th century, Alice Duer Miller is perhaps best remembered for her pro-woman suffrage poems, published in a column in the New York Tribune as "Are Women People?" and then republished as a book, also called Are Women People?.
Selected Alice Duer Miller Quotations
• Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
"Women, subject yourselves to men."
Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
"They rule the world without the vote."
By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
"When all the women wanted it."
By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
He said that it was bound to come.
This year I heard him say with pride:
"No reasons on the other side!"
By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist
He's always been a suffragist.
And what is really stanger, too,
He'll think that what he says is true.
• [M]en are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government.
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• When a woman like that whom I've seen so much
All of a sudden drops out of touch
Is always busy and never can
Spare you a moment, it means a Man
from "Forsaking All Others"
• About Alice Duer Miller, by Henry Wise Miller: "Alice had a special affection for librarians."
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2010. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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