The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.