Watching "Feminist Angels" for the second time, I found that the most chewable part of the film is actually this passage--Lucy: "I will be thirty years old in a year," "I am now Can see that kind of scene - alone with a hairless cat named Leicester, dying in Brooklyn."
Alice: "Leave the childbirth to those who unfortunately don't have your brains or A capable woman. Don’t make your life so complicated.”
Lucy was stunned, and then talked about her sisters and their children.
Alice: "I wouldn't feed anyone's baby", "Think how tired you'd be with seven kids."
Lucy: "I'm tired of being single."" If you say you're not tired, you're lying."
At the end of the credits, when suffrage is finally passed in Tennessee by one vote, Alice and Lucy stand under a clear blue sky Looking at each other and smiling for a long time, all the wind and rain seemed to have stopped. It would be great if this is the final outcome, but just as Li Yinhe once lamented, the women's movement is the longest revolution. Although women have gained suffrage for many years today, an unmarried woman begins to fall into anxiety at the age of thirty Has gender equality really been achieved in the 1980s?
After watching the movie, I went to Wikipedia to check the information of these two people.
Alice Paul, devoted all her life to the women's movement, has always been active , and even participated in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations at the age of eighty. Died in 1977 at the age of 92, established the Alice Paul Fund to support women's equality. Never married.
Lucy Burns was also unmarried all her life, but unlike Alice, she later withdrew from the women's sports team. The previous several imprisonments and various tortures made her physically and mentally exhausted Endless, finally she said "I don't want to do anything more. I think we have done all this for women, and we have sacrificed everything we possessed for them, and now let them fight for it now. I am not going to fight anymore.” (I don’t want to do any more. I think I’ve given my all for women, made my sacrifices. Now, it’s time for them to keep fighting. I’m not ready Fight again.) Lucy later became a devout Catholic and adopted her orphan and niece, and the rest of her life was peaceful without any disturbance. 
According to a mutual friend of them, Lucy is tall and enthusiastic, with thick fiery red hair, and is easy-going, while Alice is thinner and thinner than her, but she has a sharp and tough personality and is determined. No compromise. It sounds like these two people are what they look like in the movie,So this dialogue in the film is not impossible.
Many of the early pioneers of the women's movement never married. Although I don't think that lack of marriage means a lonely end, I just dare not say that everyone among them has the self-consciousness and calmness of Beauvoir. The women's movement liberated women from the family and gave them more opportunities to choose life, but it started with a rebellion against traditional values and lifestyles. Many women who fought for independence in that era would insist: "I don't need children, I don't need a family, and even——I don't need a man." People who frown, Alice-like women are really almost the "manly women" in their eyes-calm and restrained, thoughtful, lack of warmth, and even "genderless". But how many of them are not "lying"? When Alice rejected Ben's kindness again and again, until he finally chose to leave. Do you really think she has no regrets in her heart? She treats herself so cruelly because in a world where husbands have the right to "guardianize" their wives as minors, glorifying women's sacrifices for family and love is always an excuse to deprive them of their ability to develop themselves, she's too scared , she was afraid that she would melt in the warmth, so since she chose to resist, she had to put the desire for love and dependence after gaining freedom. It is a pity that their goals are too difficult to achieve, so that when they finally get them, their hearts are exhausted, and they have no strength and no chance to pursue the happiness of ordinary life. The trajectory of Lucy Burns' life is obviously like this, and Alice Paul, who has always been on the cusp of the storm, is not it?
Some people who write as women often declare in public: "I am not a feminist (or feminist)", but what is feminism or feminism? Radical rebellion against the family, indifference to emotion, and fascination with the primitive matriarchal society, those who go to extremes will only be a very small minority, and it is impossible to constitute the mainstream of feminists. The fact that most women claim not to be feminists is nothing more than a cunning ploy. Do they really not know that today's feminism has turned into a reflection on gender bias? Haven't they really heard that the contemporary women's movement has already actively recognized its own femininity after gaining written equality? If someone were to drive this group of female intellectuals from the "own room" where they wrote into the kitchen, would they still be "understanding" as always? Okay, don't look at me with pitiful eyes, I know you are just too afraid of being misunderstood and too lazy to clarify. Of course, I am not saying that it is necessary to do some parade speeches to be considered responsible. I am as skeptical of the crowd as you are. I just hope that the next time we play sexy ladies, we women will stop thinking "I'm not a feminist" as "Princess's New Clothes"? That's out of date! Angelina Jolie and Dori Amos are much sexier than we are, but why do I think they are the queens of the women's movement?
Every age has its limitations, and every generation has its "last resort" that the next generation cannot understand. Alice Paul might have been talented enough to be Hillary if she hadn't been on a hunger strike for suffrage, and Lucy Burns might have been the mother of a bunch of redheaded kids and still be happy. Write sharp commentary. I don't expect everyone to run off and plant trees, but now that we've been standing in the shade of someone else's for so long, don't we need to say we "live elsewhere"?
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