 And that's how it was between veteran suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt and 20-something Alice Paul. I made allies. I took action. Who cares who gets the credit or the blame? Their relationship was not good. Historian Marjorie Sproul has written books about women's history. She says their styles of activism were very different. As the country was gripped by World War I, Catt wanted the suffrage movement to support the war.