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Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought to secure women the right to vote and other feminist causes. The author of the Equal Rights Amendment, written in 1923 but still not ratified, died at the age of 92 in 1977, and remains one of the nation’s most outspoken voices in the battle for equality. “There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it,” she once said.

Early Life and Education

Paul was born to suffragist Tacie Parry and successful Quaker businessman William Paul on January 11, 1885, in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. The oldest of four siblings, she lived with her family on a 265-acre farm, and as Hicksite Quakers, was raised to value living simply along with a high importance placed on gender equality and advocacy. In fact, as a girl, she attended suffragist meetings with her mother.

“When the Quakers were founded…one of their principles was and is equality of the sexes,” Paul said. “So I never had any other idea…the principle was always there.”

Paul, who graduated first in her class in 1901 from a Quaker school, attended the Quaker Swar

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Alice Paul

(1885-1977)

Who Was Alice Paul?

Alice Paul grew up with a Quaker background and attended Swarthmore College before living in England and pushing for women's voting rights. When she returned to America in 1910, she became a leader in the suffragist movement, eventually forming the National Woman's Party with Lucy Burns and becoming a key figure in the voices that led to the passage of the 19th Amendment. In later years she advocated for the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment as well. She died in Moorestown on July 9, 1977.

Family & Education

Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885, in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, attending school in nearby Moorestown. She was the eldest child of William Mickle Paul I and Tacie Paul who later provided her with three more siblings. Influenced by her Quaker family (she was related to William Penn who founded Pennsylvania), she studied at Swarthmore College in 1905 and went on to do graduate work in New York City and England.

While in London from 1906 to 1909, Paul became politically active and unafraid to use dramatic tactics in

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Alice Paul, Suffrage Militant

Alice Stokes Paul (1885−1977) was one of the leading feminists of the early twentieth century, a person who brought the women’s suffrage movement into the national spotlight. Passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment or the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was due in large part to Paul’s visionary leadership, courage, determination, brilliant organizational skills, and laser-like focus on planning and execution. A tireless, unrelenting, uncompromising, and uncomplaining feminist fighter, she fervently believed that there could be no gender equality until and unless the nation was committed to women’s suffrage and to an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

The history of suffrage in the United States has always been complicated and contested. Before the ratification of the Constitution, propertied women could vote in two colonies, New Jersey and Massachusetts. But after the ratification of the Constitution, eligibility to vote in the United States was established both through the federal constitution and by state law. The Consti