Florence Ellinwood Allen

Judge

United States

1884 - 1966

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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
Florence Ellinwood Allen