Since David Colander has generously offered to consider quotations 
for the economists' calendar, I would like to submit one for John 
Stuart Mill. The entry on him on the calendar mentions his active 
role in fighting for women's right to vote. The quote below 
highlights his passion for women's equality and also refers to his 
intense interest in social  justice, which does not get any reference 
in the entry.

 From Principles of Political Economy:

"The same reasons that make it no longer necessary that the poor 
should not depend on the rich, make it equally unnecessary that women 
should depend on men; and the least which justice requires is that 
law and custom should not enforce dependence (when the correlative 
protection has become superfluous) by ordaining that a woman, who 
does not happen to have provision by inheritance, shall have scarcely 
any means open to her of gaining a livelihood, except as a wife and 
mother (759)."

Thank you.

Sumitra Shah