Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

“It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublimeWhen you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.””

— Alice Duer Miller

“We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,But very human beings, human just as much as you.It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublimeWhen you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.””

— Alice Duer Miller

“Chivalry:It's treating a woman politelyAs long as she isn't a fright:It's guarding the girls who act rightly,If you can be judge of what's right;It's being”

— Alice Duer Miller

“When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;But if two women disagree, with very little noise,It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.””

— Alice Duer Miller

“There, little girl, don't read,You're fond of your books, I know,But Brother might mopeIf he had no hopeOf getting ahead of you.It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.There, little girl, don't read.””

— Alice Duer Miller

“Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter,Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.””

— Alice Duer Miller

“Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men?Yes, it is true.Is not a woman's place the home?No, not when men need her services outside the home.Will she never be told again that her place is the home?Oh, yes, indeed.When?As soon as men want their jobs back again.””

— Alice Duer Miller