I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

I am what you call a hooligan-

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

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.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.