Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

by Alice Duer Miller

If you can show that women will abide

By the best standards of their womanhood—

(And I must be the person to decide

What in a woman is the highest good);

If you display efficiency supreme

In philanthropic work devoid of pay;

If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme

For bringing the millennium in a day:

Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,

I might consider giving you the vote.