The women's movement is the result not of the efforts of any single group of emancipators but of the spontaneous awakening of women throughout the world.
It is part of the general impulse of all humanity toward self-government, which is now affecting such widely separated countries as Portugal and China.
I have been two months in the near east, and I found that even the Egyptian women were bestirring themselves and demanding greater freedom. It was my first view of the secluded life of Moslem women, and it seemed so different from anything known to me that when I landed again in Italy it seemed like coming home.
After the Paris congress of women I am going to a similar meeting in Vienna and then to the greater suffragist congress in Budapest, where many other American delegates are expected.
As for England leading the world, more American women voted for president at the last election than the English franchise bill if passed, would have given the vote.
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