As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

- Jeannette Rankin

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

- Jeannette Rankin

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

- Jeannette Rankin

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

- Jeannette Rankin

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

- Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

- Jeannette Rankin

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

- Jeannette Rankin

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

- Jeannette Rankin

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition o…

- Jeannette Rankin