...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

I am what you call a hooligan-

What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.