Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. She was an American poet, novelist, screenwriter, satirist, and feminist. The New York Tribune published a series of her wonderful satirical poems lambasting the objections to women voting, which were then published in 1915 as a book called Are Women People? Her title became a catchphrase of the women’s suffrage movement.

To read Alice Duer Miller’s poem, “Why We Oppose Votes for Men” click:

“Why We Oppose Votes for Men” is in the public domain.