Eleanor Rathbone Quotes

2 Sourced Quotes

The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

Eleanor Rathbone

Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring.... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

Eleanor Rathbone

Eleanor Rathbone

Eleanor Rathbone

Born: May 12, 1872

Died: January 2, 1946 (aged 73)

Bio: Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British member of parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.

Eleanor Rathbone on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

British Politician Quotes

Politician Quotes

19th-century Politician Quotes

19th-century Women

Women Politicians