Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland
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In the 1800s, a new concept of womanhood was developing. In the middle of the 19th-century, as the first feminists were forming groups to fight for women’s rights, a strong movement was forming by women to vote. Those who wanted to vote for women saw it as a way of helping their sisters gain equal rights. Many thought that if they could give women the vote, there would be less men in politics and less corruption. This quote shows that many people thought that giving women the right to vote would help them find better ways to run things in society.

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