[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

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