Kathrine Robinson Everett:
Well I think maybe the war [World War I] helped me decide. Because in Washington, I was in Washington a year and a half during the war and there til the close,—I met women from all over the world, very attractive people. There were a lot of women in England who were beginning to go do new things. We saw the first women smoking, for instance. We'd never seen women smoking before. We'd go to a certain Hotel because the English women were there and they'd all be smoking. I, several years later, was president of the N. C. Business and Professional Women's Clubs and Fayetteville local president, that wasn't started until 1919, though. But you saw women doing various things. But I think it was the war, too, seeing that women could go out and could do things just as well. I think again my father's philosophy helped me some. He thought women had plenty of sense; if they used it, they could do what they wanted to. He believed women could get there if they wanted to.
- Kathrine Robinson Everett, lawyer and women's rights activist
Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett by Pamela Dean, January 21, 1986, Interview C-0006, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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