Margaret Mary Morgan, U.S. suffragist, print shop owner, and politician, was the first woman ever elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Upon leaving office, she is quoted as saying, "Remember, a woman has to work harder than a man and have more patience in order to achieve success"
Famous quotes containing the words mary and/or morgan:
“The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The “Otherizing” of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it’s the model, the template, for all other oppressions.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)