Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The main thesis of the book is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalizes them, rendering them eunuchs.

Like many other suffragists who lived long lives, Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910) did not live long enough to see the 19th Amendment become law. The same was true of Frances Willard (1839 - 1898) who was also a leading temperance champion.

As a little girl, Harriot Stanton Blatch (Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter) was immersed into the fight for women's rights. Later, after she was married, Harriot (1856 - 1940) was a leader herself as was her daughter, Nora Blatch.