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Suffragette

noun

A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century).

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"Suffragette" Quotes from Famous Books

... possesses one is unique that perhaps need not be regretted. We shall not even, within any measurable period of time, reach a sanely free and human life fit to satisfy quite moderate aspirations. The wise birth-controller will not (like the deliciously absurd suffragette of old-time) imagine that birth-control for all means a New Heaven and a New Earth, but will, rather, appreciate the delightful irony of the Biblical legend which represented a world with only four people in it, yet one of them ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... in The Tribune, The Youth's Companion and The Independent, with all the good the novels, the stories brought to people, you were always year after year making the ways straighter, lifting up people, making them happier and better. No woman ever did better for her time than you and no shrieking suffragette will ever understand the influence you wielded, greater than hundreds of thousands ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... It contained three serious cases of arson, in which Suffragette literature and messages had been discovered among the ruins, besides a number of minor outrages. An energetic leading article breathed the exasperation of the public, and pointed out the spread of ...

— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward

Words linked to "Suffragette" : feminist, women's rightist, Great Britain, suffragist, United Kingdom, U.K., suffrage, women's liberationist, Britain, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, libber