Excerpt from Are Women People?: A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times Father, what is a Legislature?A representative body elected by the people of the state.Are women people?No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.Do legislators legislate for nothing?Oh, no; they are paid a salary.By whom?By the people.Are women people?Of course, my son, just as much as men are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.