WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:49:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Rankin, Jeannette – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rankin, Jeannette -- (1968) https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3254/ https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3254/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3254 You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.


Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) American suffragist, politician
(1968) ]]> https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3254/feed/ 0 3254 Rankin, Jeannette -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3252/ https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3252/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3252 We did not labor in suffrage just to bring the vote to women, but to allow women to express their opinions and become effective in government. Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn’t make sense not to use both.


Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) American suffragist, politician
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3252/feed/ 0 3252 Rankin, Jeannette -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3253/ https://wist.info/rankin-jeannette/3253/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3253 You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.


Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) American suffragist, politician
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