Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) NY

• A campaigner for women's suffrage and an active member of the Algonquin Round Table and Heterodoxy.
• She published a series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune, “Are Women People?” These words became a catchphrase of the suffrage movement.
• Illustration for one of Miller's suffragist poems, published in Puck in 1915 (The Awakening), shows women's suffrage moving East from the states in the West that had first adopted it.

Quotes:

"Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . ."

 

"It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron".

 

“Mother, what is a Feminist?" "A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares to think about her own affairs as men don't think she oughter.”