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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeanette Rankin

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeanette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeanette Rankin

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Jeanette Rankin

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

Jeanette Rankin

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

Jeanette Rankin

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Jeanette Rankin

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

Jeanette Rankin

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

Jeanette Rankin

Jeanette Rankin

Jeanette Rankin

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Born: June 11, 1880

Died: May 18, 1973 (aged 92)

Bio: Jeannette Pickering Rankin was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana. She won a second House term 24 years later, in 1940.

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