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Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont
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“[Honoring 'a hundred gallant women' who had been imprisoned for their suffragist activities:] The suffrage pickets stood at the White House gates for ten months and dramatized the women's agitation for political liberty. Self-respecting and patriotic American women will no longer tolerate a government which denies women the right to govern themselves. A flame of rebellion is abroad among women, and the stupidity and brutality of the government in this revolt have only served to increase its heat.”
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“Every woman should marry twice. The first time for money, the second time for love.”
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“I don't want to die with white hair. It's so depressing.”
Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, U.S. social reformer
(1853 - 1933)
Real name: Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont.