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

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

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

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

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.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.