June 1912 — Cleveland OH

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest work has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Source: Life and Labor: A Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, September 1912, p. 288.

Also: Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses: Working Women’s Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War, by Sarah Eisenstein (Abingdon: Routledge, 1983), p. 32.