the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick …

- Eleanor Rathbone

I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economi…

- Eleanor Rathbone

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

- Eleanor Rathbone

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance…

- Eleanor Rathbone

There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations…

- Eleanor Rathbone

continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured posses…

- Eleanor Rathbone