Suffragettes

Women seeking the right to vote, known as the suffragettes, experienced a similar fate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a one hundred year long effort to gain the vote for women; the effort was led by community organizers called suffragettes, a term taken from England where women won the vote a full decade earlier than did American women, also courtesy of community organizers. ❋ Ellen Beth Gill (2008)

LAMB: You quote Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Edith Wilson, as calling the suffragettes detestable and despicable. ❋ Unknown (2001)

They might be termed the suffragettes of religion, for they pray always to "Our Father and Mother, which are in heaven." ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

In fact they give Marx a bad name, he at least suffered for his ideology whereas these little 'suffragettes' live like socialist royalty. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was the first group whose members were known as "suffragettes". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Back then, sometimes, they were called by the diminutive term "suffragettes"; they're known today, more often, as "suffragists." ❋ Unknown (2009)

More traditional environmentalists, from the Green Party to Friends of the Earth, have been joined by quirkier 21st century outfits like Climate Rush, green "suffragettes" who last week occupied Heathrow's domestic departure lounge to hold a mass tea party in Edwardian costume. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Iranian women "suffragettes" have held demonstrations, risking injury, arrest and imprisonment. ❋ M.D. Ida Lichter (2011)

On the women's movement: If abolitionists and suffragettes took 100 years, in the quest for equality, we are only 1/3 along the way. ❋ Regina Weinreich (2011)

In the comments to my recent post on the suffragettes, several readers have asked me the reason (s) for Cathy's disapproval of the movement. ❋ Maxine (2009)

In the Pankhurst family of suffragettes, to give another example, Sylvia was strongly antiwar, while her mother was a defender of the state. ❋ Craig K. Comstock (2011)

Now, some of the early suffragettes were segregationists, and some black rights leaders are homophobic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

there was a [suffragette] in [mary poppins]! ❋ Fairy Nuff (2003)

[ha]. [im] right [arent] i?!?! ❋ Anonymous (2003)

They [suffragette] [women] gave [brave] sacrifices. ❋ Miu Tagakishi (2016)

Mohammad (who can't read and is eager for Jihad against the last [foothold] of Secularism) is listening to a Future history book in [Eurostan] "[Suffragette], our greatest ally?" ❋ Hanna Mitchell (2017)

‘There have been so many great lady [rappers] on [the music scene] [lately]!’ ‘Yeah, it’s becoming a real suffragette city!’ ❋ CreepyDelight (2018)

"Oh, that widebodied suffragette was in front of city [council] again last night, [bitching] about park [usage]." ❋ Uncle Krusty (2008)