“Perhaps the largest financier of the women’s suffrage movement was Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. Born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama in 1853, she was born to a wealthy family. Her mother was the daughter of a U.S. congressman, and her father was a successful commission merchant. In 1875, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who you may remember from his infamous dealings with Victoria Woodhull.

The Vanderbilts were one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the world at the time, and Cornelius not only had an affair with Victoria’s sister Tennie, but he funded the two sisters’ newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, which they used to promote their ideas of free love, sex education, legalization of prostitution, vegetarianism, short skirts, women’s right to no-fault divorce, and suffrage.

Remember, this is in the 1870’s, but it’s the same exact agenda of the counter-culture radicals and second wave feminists of the 1960’s. This is important to note because, as you will see, it has been the same wealthy families pushing this agenda for over a century. It is also important to note that William K. Vanderbilt was a founding member of the Jekyll Island Club, which was where representatives of the richest men in the world met in secret in 1910 to draft legislation to establish central banking in America under the Federal Reserve Act.

Alva and William K. Vanderbilt had three children together before their divorce due to his infidelities in 1895. At a time when divorce was rare among the elite, Alva was awarded a financial settlement of over $10 million (the equivalent of over $320 million in 2021) as well as several Vanderbilt estates. This made her one of the richest women in the world.”

— From Occult Feminism by Rachel Wilson, page 83