“Members of this house, I regard myself as first and foremost a citizen rather than a woman, and I consider it to be a profound political mistake to exclude women from this right, women who place their hopes and trust in you, the women who, as occurred with other new forces in the French Revolution, will unquestionably be a new force that will acquire this right and there is nothing to be done but help it on its way.”

Clara Campoamor.
Speech to the Spanish Parliament on 1 October 1931