I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

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

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

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

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