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I've got nothing to do
with committee appointments.

Let her submit
a proposal to Anna.

- She's here in
Philadelphia.

All she wants
is half an hour.

She's a bright girl--
Swarthmore,

and a doctorate from Penn.

Her family has money.

Carrie, are you listening?
- Yep.

- She wants to lobby
for a constitutional amendment.

- Oh, she thinks Congress is
going to suddenly roll over?

I thought you said
she was bright.

Paula who?

- Paul, Alice Paul.

She worked in England.

- Don't bring me
any radicals, Harriot.

- She's not a radical.
She's a Quaker.

She came all the way
down here

to meet you and Anna.
Be nice.

- It's mine.

- Saw it first.

- It's calling my name.

- I must be deaf.

Heads.

It's not your style.

- Nice try.

- Carrie Catt's very proud
of the state-by-state campaign.

Congratulate her.
- On what?

64 years of begging,

and now women can
vote in nine states.

How many years
per state is that?

You congratulate her.

- We waltz in there
and say, "Do the math,"

we won't get the letterhead
or the office.

You want to be two girls
on a corner soap box,

or do you want
to go to Washington

and play with the big lads?

I want them to give us
the congressional committee.

- What?

- Did you swallow it whole?

- I strangled it first.

The president

of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association,

the reverend
Anna Howard Shaw.

- Don't bring up suffrage
in England.

Shaw thinks the Brits
are hooligans.

No matter what, don't get
your knickers in a knot.

Don't start up.
Be polite.

- I'm always polite.
When am I not polite?

- It's the color,
with your hair.

- The passage of
a constitutional amendment

is not a realistic goal.

- It could become one.

- Theoretically, yes,
in the future.

First, we need more states.

- Susan B. Anthony
petitioned for it

in 1868 and again in 18--

- Thank you for
the history lesson.

- If Susan B. Anthony
were alive today,

she'd say 1912
is the future.

- Dr. Shaw and I worked
side by side

with Susan
and Elizabeth Stanton

while you were still
in diapers, Miss Paul.

Would you do me a favor
and please refrain

from second-guessing her
thoughts on this topic?

- "Do me a favor.
Don't second-guess

"Susan's thoughts
on cheese.

"We worked side by side
with Susan.

"We worked cheek to cheek
with Susan.

She despised cheddar
and she loathed muenster."

A constitutional amendment

that gives women
the right to vote,

assuming it doesn't
die in committee,

will almost certainly
be vetoed in the Senate.

We waste time,
we waste money.

We squander the goodwill
of the Democrats

and worse, we look like babies
with no political savvy.

Which gives ammunition
to our opponents.

Have you any other
thoughts, Miss Paul?

- A parade.

In March.

The day Wilson's arriving
for his inauguration.

We're guaranteed a crowd,
and hopefully,

some badly needed-publicity
from the newspapers.

- Mrs. Blatch tells me
that you two met in England.

Those women give suffrage
a bad name.

- Better than
no name at all.

- I beg your pardon?

- Lucy was studying
at Oxford.

- What?
I was.

- While I'm in sympathy
with the British suffragettes,

I don't approve
of their methodology.

We don't throw bricks
to make our position clear.

If I send you to Washington,

I want your assurance that there
will be no hooligan tactics.

- You have it.

I don't consider myself
above the law

under any circumstances.

- Then you may take over NAWSA's
committee in Washington.

Have your parade,
Miss Paul.

- Thank you.

- You'll have to raise
your own funds, of course.

That the female mind
is inferior to the male mind

need not be assumed.

There is
something about...

There is something about
it essentially different...

And that this difference
is of a kind and degree

that with votes for women

would constitute
a political danger

ought to be plain
to everyone.

I do not wish to see
the day come

when the women in my state
shall trail their skirts

in the muck and mire
of partisan politics.

- These flippant girls
singing "votes for women"

know not the disasters
they invite

by this reckless movement.

- Flip you for it.

- Oh, my.
- Let me see.

Let me see.
- What? Hey!

- How do you raise money
to raise money?

- Oh, excuse me.
- All right.

- All we need is a handful
of society women.

I found someone who
designs parade floats.

- Floats? I thought we were
gonna keep it small.

- Why?

- Because you've never
organized a parade before.

Neither have I--it's not like
giving a dinner party.

- Have you ever given
a dinner party?

- No.

- Then what are you
worried about?

Did you get the permit?

- I've been to the district
police three times this week.

- Go over his head.
To the parks commissioner.

- I could go under his belt.

- I bet you would.

I think
a thousand women marching

means more than 10,000
signatures on a piece of paper.

Suffrage is not a dead issue.

It's us, it's you.

It's living,
breathing women.

We're not just a petition

that can be crumbled up
and tossed away.

And this is what
marching does.

Marching shows the politicians
that we women

are united in our demand
for political--

- Show me a raise!
Screw the politicians!

- Go ahead, if you think
it'll help.

Now, there's--

- 146 women burned to death
in a factory fire last month.

Where's your fire escape?

Laws are made
by elected officials.

A fire escape can be
required by law.

A vote is a fire escape.

- We take Sunday off
to la-dee-dah for you,

we get fired on Monday.

You have children, Missus?

They don't eat ballots.

Go ahead,
shout your head off.

The ruling class
are those who have a voice,

and that voice is a vote.

No one hears you.

- Fttt!

- Votes for women.

- The parade's gonna happen
and, uh...please.

Please,
would you like one?

The more the merrier.

Anyone.

A vote is a fire escape.

A vote is fire escape!

- That's right, a vote--
a vote's a fire escape.

Mrs. Wenclawska...Ruza.

- Alice Paul.

- Now give me the rest,
college girl.

- Helen Keller's in town.
Arrange for me to meet her.

I don't know
which hotel.

She's deaf and blind.

If she found it,
I'm sure you can.

- Hi, Mabel Vernon.

I played hockey with
Alice at Swarthmore.

- Lucy Burns.

D.C. police will not
guarantee our safety

if we march on the third,
because Wilson's arriving.

- We're not
changing the date.

- Exactly what I said.
I like that one.

And he said, "Well--"

"Miss, there might be trouble
with inaugural crowds

and I'm afraid I won't be
held responsible."

And I said, "Look, Mister,

we're entitled to
police protection."

And he said, "Why don't you
take my advice, you ladies?

Why don't you just
stay at home?"

- Miss Paul?

Ida Wells-Barnett
from the Chicago delegation.

I'm told you
expect Negro women

to march in a separate unit,
at the back.

- Southern suffrage groups
threaten to withdraw--

- Are the ladies afraid
we'll march out of step?

Call their bluff.

- We can't afford
to lose their support.

Not with the Democrats
in office.

- Who's "we"?
Women?

Or just white women?

- Now, wait a minute.

- We have one agenda: suffrage.
Add another issue--

- If we don't
stand up now,

what happens to Negro women
when you finally get the vote?

They'll keep us out of the
polling place any way they can.

- Other colored groups have
agreed to the compromise.

- Not perfect,
but we got to be practical.

- Dress up prejudice
and call it politics?

I expected more
from a Quaker.

I'll march with my peers
or not at all.

- I understand.

- How are you, ma'am?

Doris Stevens, National
Woman Suffrage Association.

We're short
on volunteers today,

if you have an hour
to spare?

- No, no, I can't,
not today.

- Or if you'd like
to make a contribution.

- No, thank you!

- Watch out sweetheart,
hot soup.

- Jenny!

- How are you, ma'am?

I'm Doris Stevens, National
Woman Suffrage Association.

We're short on
volunteers today,

if you have
an hour to spare.

- I'm sorry, I can't.

- Or if you'd like
to make a pledge.

- Another time perhaps.

- Come along, Jenny,
mind the wet.

- Jenny, come on,
take my hand.

- How are you, ma'am?

Doris Stevens, National Woman
Suffrage Association.

- Hmm.

- We're going to solicit
donations.

Let's look
like we need them.

- I could tell
you were from Wyoming.

That's my favorite state.

They gave women the vote
from the get-go.

- What a beautiful dog
you're wearing.

Didn't we meet at
Mrs. Bellwood's lunch?

- Yes.
- I'm Doris Stevens,

National
Woman Suffrage Association...

- So nice to meet you.

- By the politicians,
by the newspapers.

It's very important
to raise awareness.

- Yes, ah, Senator Leighton,
good to see you.

- Good to see you.
Yes, of course.

- Good evening,
Senator.

- Hi, John,
nice to see you.

- Senator.

- Mmm, it's beautiful,
isn't it?

- Yes.
- I'm sorry, I'm Lucy Burns.

- Emily Leighton.

- Oh, gosh. Yes.

I'm actually part of NAWSA's
congressional committee.

National American Woman
Suffrage Association.

- Ah.

- We're giving a parade.
Have you heard about our parade?

- I really don't follow
politics, Miss Burns.

I haven't the head for it.

- We're citizens
or we're chattel.

You don't really need
a degree from Harvard

to figure that out.

- Would you excuse us?

- Oh, Senator Leighton,
it was very--

nice to meet you.

Muller vs. Oregon,
1908.

Judge rules in favor of shorter
working hours for women.

Then, goes on record saying

healthy mothers serve
the public interest.

- So, that was a victory.
And as your old labor lawyer,

are you not?
- I am.

- Those women
were being exploited.

- Sure, now they're
being patronized.

We're not broodmares.

- Thank you--ah!

Labor law
with a sexual bias

will come back
and bite us in the ass.

- The issue isn't opportunity.
It's protection.

Women need protection.
- We all need protection.

But when women complain,
people call it hysteria

and then they rush
to fetch the doctor.

- As long as women accept
protective law

they can't expect equality.

They need full citizenship.

- Ben Weissman.

- Alice Paul.

- Inez Milholland.

- I'm hungry.

Have you eaten?

A stout old maid
with facial hair.

Carrie Nation
waving her axe,

that's what people think of
when you say suffragist.

So NAWSA fights it with
"Madonna and child".

- Women who nurture the family,
rock the baby,

serve the dinner,
serve society.

Serving, serving, serving.
- Always.

- But the new suffragist is
single, young, independent...

- Educated.

- And very, very beautiful.

She's you.

- On a horse.

- A cowgirl?

- A warrior.
- A herald.

- Joan of Arc
with 10,000 women

following her down
Pennsylvania Avenue!

- An ideal woman who can
lead us up the mountain.

- Mm-hmm,
or off a cliff.

- No.
- No!

- Something like this?

- Oh, hey, you could
do this for a living.

- You think so?

- He does.

What's the name of that
miserable rag you work for?

Oh, yeah,
"The Washington Post."

- That's exactly
what I want.

- Have dinner with me tomorrow.

When I do business with men,
we have dinner.

Don't you want
equal treatment?

- I'm having dinner
with Helen Keller.

- Oh, don't stare,
she hates that.

Have lunch with me.

- I'd like to meet some
"Washington Post" reporters.

- After lunch.
- Before.

- Don't you trust me?
- I don't know you.

- Would you like to?

Well, see, Negro men have been
voting since the Civil War.

You think the ballot's
changed his life?

It's a cash and carry
country.

What's the vote
gonna buy you?

- Self-respect,
for starters.

- I vote and I have
no self-respect.

What do you think women
are gonna do when they vote?

Reform politics?

- Because
we're morally superior?

That's a nice fairy tale.

I don't have any illusions
about women.

There's good and bad,
just like men.

I don't know what they're
gonna do with their vote,

and I don't care.

- Prohibition?
Legalize birth control?

- It doesn't matter.

That's not the point.
- What's the point?

- We're legitimate citizens.

We're taxed without
representation,

we're not allowed
to serve on juries,

so we're not tried
by our peers.

It's unconscionable,

not to mention
unconstitutional.

We don't make the laws

but we have to obey them,
like children.

You know the
suffrage amendment

has only once been voted on
in the senate?

But we've got nine states now.

That's 4 million women voters,

which means
1/5th of the House,

1/6th of the Senate

and 1/7th
of the electoral votes

come from suffrage states.

You want to know what women
can buy with that?

- Were you the smartest girl
in your class?

- No. In the whole school.

- Ahh.

Would you be talking to me

if I didn't work for
"The Washington Post"?

- No.
- Mm-hmm.

Have lunch with me,
Alice Paul.

- This desk
was Susan B. Anthony's.

From the old headquarters.

It was in storage.

It's haunted.

Did you kiss him?

'Cause if you don't
want him, I'll take him.

- Shh.

Listen.

- Ask her how we'll get
the amendment on the floor.

What does she say?

- She says...

just do it.

- Hey hey hey hey!
Hey, girlie girls, girls!

Over here!

Get over here, come on!

Get off the streets.
Go home to your mother!

- My mother is here!

- If you was my wife,
I'd bash your head in!

Welcome, Mr. President!

Welcome, sir!

- Welcome to Washington,
Mr. President.

Design Commissioner Stevenson.
Right this way.

- I thought there
would be a big crowd.

Where is everybody?

- Hey, you, he-shes,

get off the streets
and go home, you hussies!

You wanna be a man?

- Who wears the pants
in your family?

- What you got
under your skirt?

- Go back home!

- Men built this country
and made it what it was today!

- Mom!

Mom!

- Officer!

Officer!
Over here!

Over here!

- When's the last time suffrage
was on the front page?

"Nation aroused by
open insults to women.

Cause wins
popular sympathy."

Oh, look, another photograph
of you, warrior princess,

above the fold,
thank you.

- Alice, you were right
about the wings.

"Even those who are opposed
to giving women the vote

"must now admit
that the movement

is no ephemeral thing."

- "The Evening Star"
blames the D.C. Police.

- So does "The Post."
My feet hurt.

- We got lucky.

- A hundred people
in the hospital.

You call that lucky,
Miss Paul?

- Uh, she means
the extra publicity.

Look, Anna.

- The police
were negligent.

"The Post" is calling
for an investigation.

Wilson's a gentleman
from the South.

I don't see how he can deny
a delegation of women,

especially when they were
practically molested

at his doorstep.

- A delegation?

- Before the bruises fade.

- Before he addresses
Congress.

- He's the president of
the United States, Miss Paul.

You don't exactly
go calling on him

as though he were
the missus next door.

- Oh, come on, Carrie,

can't a cat look at a king?

- We should press
our advantage.

- I think you overestimate
your advantage.

- This is the first time

the issue of suffrage

has been brought
to my attention.

- Well, we hope that
you'll support the issue

in your address to Congress,
Mr. President.

- As I promised
in my election campaign,

Congress will focus on currency
revision and tariff reform.

These are issues which
affect all Americans

and of course must take
priority over special interests.

I can't very well
instruct Congress

on the merits of an issue
I'm not familiar with.

I hope you'll be patient
while I...educate myself.

- Mr. President.

How can you legislate
tariff reform

when not all citizens
are able to vote for it?

Isn't that why we fought
the American Revolution?

The way he seated us
in a circle like schoolgirls.

He's stalling, Lucy--he knows
Anna Shaw won't press him.

What we need is
a separate committee

dedicated
to the federal amendment

and nothing else.
- Shh!

- We've got women coming in
from every district

to volunteer.

Now's the time
to train them.

Lobby Congress.

Really pressure both houses,

get the amendment on
the floor and to a vote.

- It won't pass.
- Well, then we'll use that

as an excuse to go after
the Democrats.

We'll be a thorn
in Wilson's side.

- Shh!
- A rock in his shoe.

We won't...let up.

Inez, we need
a bigger headquarters.

Any of your rich boyfriends
own a building?

- Would you please be quiet?

- My sister's blind--I have to
read the titles to her.

- That's it, you've ruined it
for me--let's go!

Come on, let's go.
- Come on.

- Oh.

Instructions
for lobbyists.

Before you visit a congressman,
look him up in our card index,

what bills has he supported
in the past,

what's his suffrage record.

Learn the names
of his children.

- We don't need women votin'

in South Carolina.

We know how to
take care of our women.

- Be a good listener.
Don't interrupt.

- Hi.

- The majority of intelligent
refined, educated women

in our country don't want it.

And that's a fact.

- Don't lose your temper.

- Well, since you are
suffragists,

you won't mind standing.

- I'm with you, I'm for it,

I'm gonna vote for it.
Now don't bother me.

- I was beginning to worry.

- Didn't Mrs. Martin tell you
I was gonna be late?

I asked her to call you.

- Ohh, you look tired.

- Suffrage amendment finally
made it out of committee.

Took forever to defeat it.

Senators love
to hear themselves talk.

- What did they say?
Why did they vote it down?

- Because, they know
that you have your hands full

with the children already.

- Rebecca learn
any new words today?

- Yes, "funny."

- You didn't really expect
the amendment

to get a 2/3rds majority,
did you?

- I don't expect, I plan.

For every possibility
I can imagine.

- You don't like
surprises, hmm?

- Not even
on my birthday.

Men plan, God laughs.

- Yeah, well, I'm not a man.

- Ever wish you were?

- Once.

I saw my brother peeing
his name in the snow.

Well, the wind
is changing.

- Oh, what?

- Alice Paul's new unauthorized
fundraising committee.

She's calling it
"The Congressional Union".

See who's on
the advisory board?

- Not without my specs.

- Phoebe Harkes,

Helen Keller,
Harriot Blatch.

She's handpicked
our best fundraisers.

And that money should've
come here to the national

for state campaigns,
not her propaganda sheet.

You didn't authorize her
to publish a newspaper.

- Of course not.

- Well, read the editorial.

She's telling women to boycott
Wilson in the next election.

Rarely in the history
of the country

has a party
been more powerful

than the Democratic party
is today.

Those who hold power
are responsible

not only for what they do
but for what they do not do.

If the Democrats refuse
to enfranchise women,

then it's incumbent
upon voters

to boycott President Wilson
and his party

in the upcoming election.

President Wilson's inaction

establishes just as
clear a record

as does a policy
of open hostility.

- Mm-mm, leave that--maybe
he'll feel he has to respond.

- Wilson doesn't subscribe
to "The Suffragist."

- He reads
"The Evening Star."

- Well, hello.

- I apologize for not
returning your calls.

- One call.

- Yours?

Hmm.

It's the Colosseum,
isn't it?

Have you been to Rome?

- Are you trying
to make small talk?

Because you stink at it.

I know why you're here.

The "Star" wouldn't
print some tirade

from your propaganda sheet,
and you want me

to grease the doors for you
here at the "Post."

- "The Suffragist"
is not propaganda.

It reports on suffrage news.

And it's not a tirade.
It's an editorial.

- This paper supports
the Democrats.

Mr. Clayburgh isn't gonna
hand you editorial space.

You want ink, buy a pen.

- All I want is 15 minutes
with him.

- Mm-hmm.

- Could we talk about it
over lunch?

- Dinner.
And don't wear that hat.

- I like this hat.

- It's ballast, isn't it?

If you took it off,
you'd drift.

You'd sleep late,

you'd go to the park,
read magazines.

- Detective novels.
- Go dancing.

- Play tennis.

- No rhythm?

Am I getting too personal?

I know what you're thinking.
- That saves time.

- Dinner on Friday
work for you?

- We must have
a bad connection.

- Julia passed away
four years ago.

Friday?

- No night's good for me.

- Is it because
I don't have a wife?

- Because you're a coward

who won't champion
a reasonable editorial.

- Dinner, Francisco's,
Friday?

- Bring your editor?

- Ugh, all right,
whatever, come on.

- Could you type this
for me?

- Oh, I'm just here
to make a donation.

- Well, it won't
take you long.

The typewriter's here.

- I don't know how
to type.

- The letters
are on the keys.

Thank you.

Yes.

Oh, thank you.

Nice.

Did you sign up for training?

We need volunteers
to lobby for the amendment.

- Um, I'm
Senator Leighton's wife.

H-he doesn't approve.

- If everyone approved

there'd be no point to it,
would there?

- Well,
I love my husband.

I see no reason
to publicly embarrass him.

Women like you are worse
than anti-suffragists.

You perpetuate the lie
every day at breakfast.

- I beg your pardon.

You don't know what
you're talking about.

- Hi.
Mr. Weissman.

- Of course.
Follow me.

- My father
went to the bathroom.

My shoe.

It's untied.

- You mind?

- He's the youngest newspaper
editor I've ever met.

- Hmm...

You want to
split the manicotti?

- You're back early.

- He had to take
his son home.

- His son?

Hey, my sister had the baby.

A girl. She had a girl.

God, one more year,
I'm gonna be 30.

I can just see it now--

I'll end up back in Brooklyn
with a hairless cat.

Called Lester.

- Leave the baby-making
to women

who aren't lucky enough
to have your brains

or your ability.

Don't complicate your life.

- My mother had eight of us.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
had seven.

When she and Susan Anthony
were together,

they took turns
feeding the babies.

- I'm not feeding
anyone's babies.

Are you done?
Let's go over the budget.

- In the morning.
I'm too tired.

- Think how tired you'd be
if you had seven children.

- I'm tired of being alone.

If you say you're not,
you're a liar.

Before you sit down,
Miss Paul...

$25,343.88

is a very impressive total.

Why hasn't any of that money

been forwarded to
the national treasury?

- It was collected by
the Congressional Union.

The Union was created to fund

the congressional
committee's efforts

to lobby Washington
for a federal amendment.

We're not budgeted
by the National Treasury.

- I move to suspend
the activities

of the congressional
committee

during which time
the board will investigate

unauthorized expenditures.

- Second the motion.

Did you hear that?

Investigation
of our finances.

Good, great, let them keep
their congressional committee.

W e can run our own campaign.
The hell with NAWSA!

- I don't want to
fight other women.

- Well, Carrie Catt is the
next president of NAWSA.

I don't think
she is a woman.

Seriously, has anyone
seen her naked?

She called you a thief.

If you don't resign
from the committee,

she's gonna make sure you're
voted out, and then what?

Hmm?

We gonna fold our hands
like good little girls,

do what Mama says,
hope that Wilson

will pat us
on the fanny when he goes by?

Look at me.

No one will blame you
if we split with NAWSA.

They're not giving us
any other choice.

- Here's your tea.

- Thank you.

- Stick some on top.

- Yeah, put your
tongue on your top.

- Okay, get ready
for bed, come on.

Okay?

- The National Woman's Party
is composed entirely of women

and does not align itself
officially or unofficially

with any existing
political party.

The NWP does not put forth
a candidate for election.

We are a single-platform party,

dedicated to the passage

of the following
constitutional amendment:

The right of citizens of
the United States to vote

shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States

or any state,
on account of sex.

We pledge unceasing
opposition

to any and all
political candidates

who refuse to support
this amendment.

- And in the matter
of foreign trade,

the economy demands--

- Hey!
- Ah, ah, ah--

- Don't push, no pushing!

- Mrs. Catt!
One question.

- NAWSA does not support
the National Woman's Party.

- Miss Paul said she plans
to organize women--

- Miss Paul is taking
a thoughtless

and irresponsible stance

that amounts to an endorsement
of the Republican candidate.

You think Alice Paul's
western campaign

will cost Wilson
his re-election?

- President Wilson has kept us
out of the war in Europe,

and NAWSA will continue
to endorse him

as will women voters
in the west.

Extra, extra,
read all about it!

Kaiser presses on,
read all about it.

Extra, extra,
read all about it!

Thank you, ma'am.

- Oh, give this to Mrs. Harold
for expense money.

She's a widow now.

- Yeah, got it.

- It isn't fair.

- Should've called heads.

Mrs. McEwan!

Hey, buck up.
I'm only going to one state.

I'll be
the first one back.

Come here.

- Alice?
- Yeah.

- Alice, Inez wants you.
- Where is she?

- She's by
the side entrance.

- Bye, dear.
Bye.

Bye-bye!

- I, uh...

I can't go to California.

You have to find
someone else.

- There is no one else.

You're the woman
on the horse.

You can make
or break a rally.

- Alice,
I can't tell you--

I'm sorry,
I'm exhausted.

- Run around Europe,

waste your time
on peace missions,

and now you bail
when it really matters?

- Waste my time?

You couldn't say that
if you'd been with me in France.

- We're not in France,
we're in the United States,

and people want to hear
Inez Milholland.

- Oh, stuff 'em, nothing's more
important than ending a war.

Not suffrage, not anything.

You can't understand
until you've seen it.

- Inez, this is
an election year.

- And you're wearing
blinders.

- I'm seeing
around the corner.

You hear that?
It's a military band.

You want a war,
here's your war.

This war's been going on
for over half a century.

The women who started it
are dead and buried.

Here is where it ends.
Now is when we win!

You're tired, I'm tired,
who isn't tired?

But don't sit down yet.

If the woman on the horse
drops out,

what message is that
gonna send the troops?

- Oh, God.

I can't say no to you.

- Then why try?

Get some sleep on the train.
You look awful.

That's the spirit!

- Even God
rested on Sunday.

Come on.
I'll let you drive.

- I'm busy.

- Well, you do know
how to drive,

don't you, Miss Paul?

- Is that a car
or a quilt?

You want to learn?

Easy!

You gotta
keep your head up

when you're driving.

It's very important
to watch the road.

Little easier when you
let out on the clutch.

Okay, there we are.

That's better.
Now, watch the road.

Watch the road.
Keep your head up.

Don't look so tense.
Watch the road.

Watch the road--
watch the tree!

- Whoa!

- Not the clutch,
the brake, the brake.

My little sister picked it up
just like that.

You look at your feet
when you dance, don't you?

- I'm a Quaker.
We don't dance.

What?
- Take off the damn hat.

Hmm.

Okay.

Come on now,
put it in reverse.

Keep your head up.
Don't look down.

- All right, Miss Jenny.

- Look at you.

- All right, love.

- Did you see
the paper?

"The National Woman's Party
is traveling west by train.

"They will embark on
a speaking campaign

"urging women voters to vote

"against the Democrats
in this election

"who oppose
a federal amendment.

"Noted contributors
to this effort

include
Mrs. Thomas Leighton."

- I used my housekeeping
allowance, that's all.

It has nothing
to do with you.

- Emily,
I'm a Democratic senator.

You're my wife.

It's got everything
to do with me!

You'll withdraw
your membership.

- They count on my
monthly contributions.

- I've closed your account.

You can charge
at the grocers,

and the bills will be
sent to my office.

- Mr. President,

how long must women wait
for liberty?

- I do not believe
that women will vote

in a national election.

- We declare our faith

in the principles
of self-government.

- If they were to,
they would not be

as intelligent
as I think they are.

That woman,
irrespective of her race,

was made first
for her own happiness

with the absolute right
to herself

to all opportunities
life affords.

- Women should be patient,
and continue to work

in the admirable way
they have worked in the past,

campaigning for suffrage
state by state.

- We ask of our rulers
no special favors,

no special privileges...

no special legislation.

I am very glad
to make my position

about the suffrage
quite clear to you.

My private thoughts aside,

I'm not at liberty
to urge upon Congress

policies which
are not supported

by the party for whom
I am a spokesperson.

- We ask justice.

We ask equality.

We ask that all
of the, uh...

The civil and political rights

that belong to citizens
of the United States

be, uh, be guaranteed

to us

and our daughters...

forever.

- What?

What, Lucy?

- Inez...

collapsed...

and they took her
to the hospital.

- But she's all right,
isn't she?

women, whispering:
Dear Inez...

- My dear Inez...
Inez...

- Dearest Inez...

- Dear Inez...
Dear Inez...

- Thank you.

- Dear Inez...
Dear Inez...Inez...

How can death claim you?

And I, remembering how
the faces of many women

turned toward you
with expectation...

How can I find consolation?

- Lucy Burns called, again.

You are being ridiculous.

She was a grown woman.

She knew she had
pernicious anemia.

Stop blaming yourself.

- My coming home has nothing
to do with Inez.

Campaign's over, that's all.

- You put your hand
to the plow,

you finish the row.

- What are you
doing up here?

- Canning fruit.

- What fruit?
It's winter.

- Winter fruit.

- You needed a rest, okay,
you had a rest.

You feel bad about Inez.
We all do.

It's awful,
but it's not over.

- Inez was tired.
She asked me to replace her.

Nobody ever made
Inez Milholland

do anything in her life.

- She couldn't say no to me.

Don't you read the
"Ladies Home Journal"?

"Alice Paul's relentless.

Do it for suffrage,
do it for suffrage."

- That's what
we need to hear.

- Well, get a parrot.
- Don't use her as an excuse.

She would hate that.

- She said,
"Men plan, God laughs."

You ever wonder what
we're doing, Lucy?

'Cause it seems like
He is laughing.

And it's so unfair.

That anyone should
have to die in a fight

that shouldn't even
be a fight.

Especially her.

Isn't it ridiculous?

She's dead.

And we're right
where we started,

which is nowhere at all.

I'm lost, Lucy.

- We laugh, too.

Remember?
In London?

That time that we hid
in the coat closet

so we could
interrupt Parliament...

And you had to pee.

And I said to you,
I said, "Hey,

"hey, here's some
lord's boot.

Go ahead, go ahead."

I thought to myself,
"If she's game for that,

that's it, we're gonna be
friends for life."

We laughed,

and we can still laugh.

I don't see that there is
any other way, you know.

That is what we do,
we piss in the boot.

We come out,
guns blazing, yeah.

I wish Alice
was here, yeah.

My friend Alice.
You can't say no to her.

It's beautiful.

Hey.

Heads, we'll milk cows.

Tails, we'll go find
Wilson's boots, hmm?

- Has there been any reaction
from the president?

Who knew about this?

- The National Woman's Party
will station sentinels

at the White House gate

from dawn until dusk,
every day,

until the Constitution
of the United States is amended

to ensure that every citizen,
regardless of sex,

is entitled to vote
for the man who--

- Or woman.

- Or woman...

Who occupies that house.

Give that good boy
an extra cookie.

- "Silent,
silly and offensive.

"A man's mind would
never dream of something

at once so petty
and so monstrous."

Oh, listen to this.

"The demonstration was
denounced by president

"of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association,

"Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt

who pointed out that the NWP,"
which is us,

"represents only 10%
of the nation's suffragists."

Is that true,
did she make that up?

I think she might have
made that up.

- What's that?
What are you doing?

- I'm heating up bricks
for the girls to stand on.

It's freezing out there.

- Give them double coats.

Check to see who can donate

coats, gloves,
sweaters, scarves.

Try Mrs. Belmont.

- "The president smiled
and waved to the ladies

as his automobile
swept into the grounds."

- Oh, phony baloney

- "Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lane
announce the marriage

of their daughter Susan
to Roland Ashmore."

Just trying to mix it up.

"Captain of British steamer

"made prisoner by German U-boat.

German submarines
sink five more ships."

- They're within
their legal rights.

- They'll get tired
of the cold.

It won't last.

- Good to see you,
Mr. President.

- How about
they're trespassing?

- On public property?

- Oh, yeah.

The avenue
is misty gray,

and here beside
the guarded gate

we hold our golden,
blowing flags

and wait.

Emily?

Emily?

- Senator Myers
drafted a bill

that would outlaw
treasonous banners.

- Those banners
quote the president.

- You're a brave girl.

- This continued picketing
by the National Woman's Party

is the single
greatest obstacle

to the suffrage amendment.

We do not support it

and we have made that clear
to the president.

The suffrage committee
from Michigan

is here to pick up their bus.

Can we put them--
- Ask Mrs. Lewis.

- Toilet's not working
in the upstairs bathroom.

- Ask Mabel.

- Can I have dinner
with Ben Weissman?

- Ask your mother.

- I don't want to
step on your toes.

So you're not seeing him?
- No.

- Well, that's what
I told Lucy, but--

- Heard you gave away your beau.

- Beau?

Pardon my French.

- If you mean Weissman,
he's not and I didn't.

- He only asked Doris out
because you never say yes.

Don't you want
to get married, Alice?

- I'm busy that day.

- All the men I meet
are idiots.

Or terrified of me.

But if I met someone
like Weissman,

I would latch onto him
like a mollusk.

- It wouldn't be fair.

To him or Michael.
A little boy needs a mother.

My whole heart's
in this fight.

There's nothing to spare,
not if I mean to win.

- You underestimate
your heart.

- When you're alone...

You can make any
choice you want.

But when someone loves you,
you lose that right.

I won't give anything away
until we have it all.

I can't.

- Everything's a trade-off,
isn't it?

- Seems to be.

- Tom, I need--I need--

I need to tell--
I need to tell you--

I need to...
I want to tell you.

Tom, I...

I n--I need--

Yeah.

Tom...

Tom, I have something to--

To...

- Looks like we've had
enough of Kaiser Wilhelm.

United States
is declaring war.

- There are, it may be,

many months
of fiery sacrifice

and trials ahead of us.

It is a fearful thing to lead
this great peaceful people

into war...

- "Into the most terrible
and disastrous of all wars.

"We shall fight
for the things

which we have always carried
nearest our hearts."

- "We shall fight
for democracy,

"for the right of those
who submit to authority

to have a voice in
their own governments."

Wilson's going to
fight for their rights?

- No, no, he's not gonna fight.

He's gonna send men to fight
the Kaiser for him.

He's gonna stay right here
and tip his hat

to all the American women
standing at his gate.

- There won't be any women
standing at his gate.

- What?
- We can't picket

a wartime president.
- Why the hell not?

- It's treason,
that's why.

Treason is betraying
your country.

Partitioning is not treason.
At worst, it's just rude.

- Give it any name you want.
The war changes everything.

- This is not our war.

- Women have husbands.
Women have sons.

- No one's gonna thank us

if we all slink off
to roll bandages.

- Not about being
thanked.

- This is my country, and if
our soldiers need bandages,

I'm rolling bandages.

- Roll them
on the picket line.

- Look, we kicked ourselves
when we dropped the cause

during the Civil War,
and what happened?

Congress gave
Negro men the vote

- Yes.
- And told women to wait

their turn, right?

- And we're still
waiting.

- Tell me to be there
and I will.

- Be there, right?

Right?
Alice, tell her.

- Inez said there was
nothing more important

than ending a war.

- Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Hey. You wanna go put
your ear to your desk?

- If we push Wilson now,
there's gonna be consequences.

- Yeah.

- For everyone.

- Land hard, roll left.

"We shall fight
for democracy."

He said it!

He should have to
eat it and choke.

I'm not saying that
we ignore the war.

I'm saying that we
saddle up and fight it.

He can't fight
for democracy abroad

and deny it here at home,
he can't.

- No mothers
on the picket line.

- And no Alice Paul
on the picket line either.

- I can't ask women to
risk it

unless I risk it with them.
- Alice, listen to me.

- No one's on the line
if I'm not on the line.

- I'll be us on the picket line.
Don't argue with me.

You're Mama Duck,
we follow you.

If you go down,
they'll scatter.

Use your head.

One of us on the line
is enough.

- I'll flip you for it.

- No, it has to be me.

I photograph
better than you.

- I can't tell you...

what's right and
what's wrong, not now.

Not this time.

I thought about what
I would say to you.

You've all worked
so hard for so long,

and I am grateful
to all of you.

No matter what you decide,

no one will judge you.

Certainly not me.

Oh, my gosh.
- What is this?

You ladies,
what are you thinking?

How dare you!

Our country's at war!

Shame on you!
Shame on you all!

- Never thought they'd picket
a wartime president.

- Public opinion
may put a stop to it.

- And if it doesn't?

- The president
needs your support!

Maybe you should
go to Germany!

Maybe you would be
happier there!

Shame on all of you!

Shame on every one of you!
You should be home right now!

- He made you District
Commissioner.

He's commander-in-chief
now.

Commander-in-chief

doesn't
get spanked by his mommy.

Not with
the whole world watching.

- Miss Alice Paul?
- I'm Lucy Burns.

- I'm sorry, miss,
you're under arrest. All of you.

- What? We haven't
done anything.

What's the charge then?
I'm talking to you!

What is it?
What's the charge?

- They've been arrested.
Contact the families.

Mabel, go down to the station.
Call me when you get there.

- If you want to hold them,

we gotta charge them
with something.

- What?
- Obstructing traffic.

- These arrests
are purely political.

The charge of
obstructing traffic

is political subterfuge.

We know, and I believe
the court knows

that President Wilson
and his administration

are responsible
for our being here today.

We are not guilty
of any offense.

I will continue to plead

for the political liberty
of American women.

- Where 16 of us face...

- Where 10 of us
face your judgment today...

- Where 12 of us face
your judgment today...

- There will be 60 tomorrow.

- I find these defendants
guilty as charged

of obstructing traffic
in violation

of the police regulations
and the act of Congress.

$10 each, or 60 days
in the Occoquan Workhouse.

- That's not enough!

- To pay the fine would be
admitting guilt.

We haven't broken the law.

Not one dollar.

60 days in Occoquan.

- What?
You can't do that!

- Should we ask for
presidential pardon?

- There's nothing
to be pardoned for.

The charges were false.

- American citizens were
arrested on a bogus charge

while exercising
their constitutional right.

Just get them out
on appeal.

60 days for
obstructing traffic?

It's gotta be coming from
the district commissioners.

They're appointed
by the president.

- Are we picketing tomorrow?

- Yes, no mothers.

Hold on.

Is that the "Times"?
- Yeah.

- Don't bury this.
What's your name?

Hold on.

Find a marshal
and file a--

Just get them out.

What?

No.

O-double C-O-Q-U-A-N.

It's a workhouse in Virginia.

Matthew O'Brien,
he'll take the case.

Alice.

All right, men,
let's go.

Load up!

Yes, sir.

- All right, get on board.

- We're political prisoners.

We wear our own clothes.

- You'll wear
what they all wear.

- I want to see the warden.

- You want to see 'im naked?

We haven't eaten, we have
been sitting here for hours.

We need food.

- You'll eat when
it's time to eat.

You'll bed down when
it's time to bed down.

Now, you bed down.
Matron!

- We are not guilty
of any crime.

We're political prisoners.

Now, I want these women fed
and given pen and paper

to write to their families.

And we want our own
clothes back, now!

- Now...

you bed down.

- What are you--
what are you doing?

Ah!
You're hurting me!

- Easy does it.

- Mrs. Lewis!

Doris!

- Shut up!
- Is anybody hurt?

Ruza!
Ruza, are you there?

- Ow!

Let me down!

- Katherine!
Ah!

No talking.
- Lock down!

Got 'em!
- Lock it down.

- If she opens
her mouth again,

put a buckle gag
on her.

- Yes, sir.
- Any of them!

- Where are the girls?

- I had Mrs. Quinn
take them to my mother's.

To free you up.

I know how busy you are

with all your
suffrage activities.

People saw you, and Jenny,
at the suffrage trial.

I don't know
what kind of mother

takes an 11-year-old
to a district courthouse.

Did you give her a look
at the jail, too?

- I'll go and get them
after breakfast.

- No, you won't.
You leave them be.

I don't know a judge
in this district

who would give you
custody right now.

- You won't take
my children.

- How will you stop me?

Can you afford an attorney?

- An attorney?

To prove what,
that I'm their mother?

And what will your judge say,
that this is your house?

Your house
and your children.

What am I to you, Tom,
what am I then, in your house?

Chattel?
This is how you punish me?

I'm their mother!

They are not your
children to take!

- I can't find my hat.
- Which hat?

- What do you mean which hat?
My hat.

- Where were you
when you took it off?

- Jesus Christ, Mabel,

if I'd remember
I'd know where it was.

Have we heard from O'Brien?

- He filed the writ.

He's meeting with the judge.
He'll call us back.

The Home Defense League
revoked

Maud Younger's permit
to speak in Nashville.

According to Senator Walsh

we're called
the "iron jawed angels".

Is that supposed
to be an insult?

And, oh, Carrie Catt told
the "New York Times" that...

we were no better than
anarchists and draft dodgers.

- We drew straws to see
who'd bring you dinner.

I lost.

- I'm not hungry.
You can have it.

- Thanks.

- How can you eat
with Doris in jail?

I can't find
a photographer to show up

at the west gate tomorrow.

- Call the "Post,"
talk to the news editor.

- He said 326 Americans
died at a ridge.

He said I wasn't
holding any cards.

He said I should know
when to fold.

- He doesn't know about
the ace up your sleeve.

You couldn't fold
if your life depended on it.

You don't know how.

Don't take that
as a compliment.

Look, Doris is having
the time of her life.

Don't worry.

She'll write
a book about it.

I changed my mind
about the hat.

It suits you.

- Ben.

Ben!

Mabel, how many
volunteers do we have

for tomorrow's
picket line?

- Uh, I have to
check my list.

- Okay, well, add my name.
- No, I won't.

Alice, they'll lock you up,

and it won't be for
a lousy 60 days either.

We need you out here.

Besides, I promised
Lucy I wouldn't

until we were up a creek,
dead in the water.

- Mabel, add my name.

"I believe
the might of America

"is the sincere love
of its people

for the freedom of mankind."

Woodrow Wilson,
March 6th, 1915.

"We've forgotten
the history of our country

"if we have forgotten
how to agitate

when it is necessary."

Woodrow Wilson,
September 8, 1916.

"Liberty is a fierce
and intractable thing

to which no bounds
ought to be set."

Woodrow Wilson,
a message to Congress.

"There is nothing in liberty

unless it is translated
into definite action."

July Fourth, 1914,
Woodrow Wilson.

I don't wish to make
any plea before this court.

I have nothing to do with
the making of the laws

which have put me
in this position.

I am not here because
I obstructed traffic,

but because I pointed out
to President Wilson

that he is obstructing
democracy.

- Refused?

What do you mean?

- Mrs. Leighton
made it very clear

I wasn't her attorney.

And she instructed the court

not to accept bail
or fees on her behalf.

And she gave a statement
to a reporter.

She said that,
in prison or out

American women are not free.

- No talking!

- It's warm in here.
Can we open a window?

- Get to work.

- Can't you see
she looks faint?

I'm only asking
that you open a window.

- Uh, matron.

My needle broke.
May I have another?

- That's better, isn't it?

- Put her in solitary!

You...

clean that up.

I'll have to report this
to the warden.

- I'm entitled to clean water
and an empty slop bucket.

- I'm a lawyer,
not a magician, Miss Vernon.

Whitaker says no one
in solitary can see counsel,

no one sees counsel.

It's a new prison, the jerks
got the run of the place

until they got their
paperwork in order.

I need a judge
who's not on a string.

- We can't have a martyr
on our heads.

- Get on your feet!

- What are you doing?

- Okay.

I'm Dr. White, Alice.

The district commissioner
asked me to speak with you.

Do you know where you are?

- District Prison Hospital.

The mental ward.

- You refuse to eat.

Can you tell me why?

- The hunger strike was
a tradition in old Ireland.

You starve yourself
on someone's doorstep

until restitution is made

and justice is done.

- It doesn't sound like
a very effective method.

- A stinking corpse
on your doorstep?

What will the neighbors say?

- So you stand on
the president's doorstep.

He's treated you
very badly, hasn't he?

- It's the law
that treats women badly.

- But you picket
President Wilson.

He's the one
who put you here.

- We picket the office
of the presidency.

It has nothing to do
with Mr. Wilson

and everything to do with
the position he holds.

- But, he's responsible
for your treatment here.

- I believe I was sent here
by a district commissioner.

- You call yourself
a suffragist.

- Yes.

- Tell me about your cause.

Just...talk freely.

Explain yourself.

Do you understand
the question?

- You asked me
to explain myself.

I just wonder what
needs to be explained.

It should be very clear.

Look into your own heart.

I swear to you,
mine's no different.

You want a place in
the trades and professions

where you can earn your bread.

So do I.

You want some means
of self-expression,

some way of satisfying
your own personal ambitions.

So do I.

Want a voice in the government
under which you live.

So do I.

What is there to explain?

- She shows no signs of
persecution mania or delusion.

I concur with Dr. Hickling.

There is no medical
basis for a diagnosis.

- You don't feel she needs to be
permanently hospitalized?

- For her own safety.
She's suicidal.

You said so in your report.
The prison doctor said so.

- I said she was prepared
to starve to death

in order to
further her cause.

- Well, okay,
I'm not a doc

but that sure sounds
unhealthy to me.

- "Give me liberty
or give me death."

Patrick Henry,
an American hero.

- Apples and oranges.

- In oranges and women

courage is often
mistaken for insanity.

- Eyes front!

Eyes front!

- Hunger strike.

- Quiet!

- Quiet!

- Get her out of here.

- Where is she?

Tell me where she is!

Tell me!

Tell me!

Tell me!

If you do anything
to hurt that girl--

You do anything...

You do any...

- Mrs. Leighton!

Sit here,
Mrs. Leighton.

Senator, you need
to stay where you are.

- She's ill.

Emily.

Has she seen a doctor?

- She's not ill, sir.

She refuses to eat.

Maybe you can persuade her.

- I'd like to be alone
with my wife.

- Only monitored visits.
Those are the rules.

Sorry, no exceptions.

- How are the girls?

- Emily.

I want you to come home.

- No physical contact
with the prisoner.

- I'll speak...
to President Wilson.

He can issue a pardon.

- For what?

I haven't broken any laws.

- The girls keep asking
for you.

- If Rebecca can't sleep,

just sit beside her
and pat her hand.

Sometimes I do that.

- Emily...

- They are the only
reason I am here.

- I'm sorry.

- I know.

- That's all
the time we have.

New York has voted
to enfranchise women.

- Carrie.

- I've never pressed you

for a federal amendment,
Mr. President.

New York--that's 232
presidential electors.

- We're at war.

- Then call it
a war measure.

- Congress
will never pass it.

- If you support it,
they will.

- I'm sorry.

You've been very patient,
I know.

Be patient
a little longer.

I was put
in a straitjacket

and taken to
the psychopathic ward.

I could not see
my family or friends.

Counsel was denied me.

I saw no other prisoners
and heard nothing of them.

I could see no papers.

Today I was force-fed
for the third time.

I refused to open my mouth.

My left nostril, throat,
and muscles of my neck

are very sore.

I vomit continuously
during the process.

- These women are not
political prisoners.

Are you saying
force-feeding

is a medical procedure?

Why can't these women
see their lawyers?

- We have no such thing
in this country.

- Are there doctors present
for this procedure?

- The president has ordered
more than one investigation...

And no abuse
has been disclosed.

Who ordered
the force-feeding?

- Let's not waste time
with pleasantries.

I'll be blunt, may I?

The foreign press
will pick this up.

You can tell the president that
he can look like a damned fool

or he can deal me in.

Now, sir.

- This war could not have been
fought by America

if it had not been for
the services of women.

You're being released.

- We have made partners
of the women in this war...

- Let her be.

Shall we admit them
only to a partnership

of suffering
and sacrifice and toil

and not a partnership
of privilege and right?

I know the magic
it will work

in their thoughts
and spirits

if you give this thing
to them

that is mere justice.

We shall need
their moral sense

to preserve what is right
and fine and worthy

in our system of life.

Be assured the voices
of the radicals

who agitate and disrupt
have no influence here today.

- Got him.

- The task of woman

lies at the very heart
of the war.

And I know how much stronger
that heart will beat

if you do this just thing

and show our women
that you trust them

as much as you, in fact,
depend on them.

We shall deserve
to be distrusted

if we do not enfranchise them

with the fullest possible
enfranchisement,

as it is now certain
the other great free nations

will enfranchise them.

Have I said that the passage
of this amendment

is a vitally necessary
war measure?

And do you need
further proof?

Congress doesn't
make it a law.

36 states have to agree,

and then they put it
in the Constitution.

We need one more state.

Hold still, Francis.

- I want a red rose.

- No, you don't.

Red is what the
anti-suffragists wear.

We don't need
any more stars.

- I can cut as many as I want.

Miss Paul said I could.

- Come on.

- What?
I-I can't hear.

They're going in now.

Ruza says
we're short one vote.

We had Turner last night.
This morning he was wearing red.

Five'll get you ten,
they sent a whore to his room.

- We'll move to New Zealand.

- Women have been voting there
since 1893.

- Ah,
I don't wanna raise sheep.

Russia's got the vote.

- Long winters.

- Ah, I'd rather
shovel than shear.

So, that's your plan then--
expatriate sheep farmer?

Let's hear your plan.

- I'm gonna pray that God
is a woman.

- Mr. Gordon.

- Nay.

- Mr. Wells.

- Nay.

- Mr. Grayson.

- Aye.

- Mr. Fleming!

- Nay.

- Telegram, sir.

It's from your mother.

- Mr. Turner.

- Nay.

- Traitor!

- Mr. Burns.

Mr. Burns.

- Aye.

- You need to take your seats.

- We better go outside.

There'll be reporters here
in a minute.

- How's my hair?

- Red.
- Good.