I am what you call a hooligan-

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

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.

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.

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

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

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.