Gertrude Breslau Hunt Quotes

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Don't you know that the principal business of women, all down the ages, has been to go along after the men and clear up the everlasting muss they made? Well, we are still at the same task. Our politics are no more corrupt than our housekeeping would be if we let you run it alone.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

A woman's place is like a man's place. It is where her work is, wherever she can do the most good; wherever she serves herself best without invading anyone else.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

I would rather be a woman without a vote and yet know HOW to vote, than to be a man who HAS a vote and hasn't sense enough to use it.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Remember that your brain is no more developed by the thoughts your husband thinks than your body is nourished by the food your husband eats.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Generations of the past have been responsible for certain iniquitous practises, but it remained for the present century to shut the little ones up in factories, stunting physical and mental growth. Because of child labor today the future generation of men and women will suffer. Their career will bear the stamp of human brutality.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

If a woman with property needs the ballot, a woman who has nothing but her labor power needs two ballots.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

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Born: December 10, 1869

Died: November 20, 1952 (aged 82)

Bio: Gertrude Breslau Hunt was an American author and lecturer from Chicago. One of the leading writers for the Socialist Party of America, she often wrote about women's issues, and was active in the suffrage movement. She also published under the name Gertrude Breslau Fuller.

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