Ethel Snowden

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Overview

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Ethel Snowden (née Annakin) born Pannal, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England September 8, 1881 (d. 1951). British suffragist, feminist orator and author; opposed World War I; led Women's Peace Crusade; founder WILPF 1915; Christian Socialist.

Quotations

"Feminism does not seek the extinction of strength and courage in men, nor of beauty and softness and tenderness in women, but the recognition that these fine and lovely qualities are the heritage of men and women alike—human qualities which all human beings have in germ, and which all human beings are entitled to cultivate and to use without question or reproof." (Feminist Movement, ch. 1, 1913; photo Spartacus Educational)