Millicent Fawcett

11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929

British suffragist, feminist and campaigner, founder of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

 

As long as mothers have sone and fathers have daughters there can never be a sex war.

In Women's Suffrage Journal 1 Jan 1872

 

Statesmen are the physicians of the body politic, and a wise physician will treat not only the sympton, but its root and cause.

Common Cause, 28 February 1913

 

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