What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

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.

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.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

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.

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-