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

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

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.

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.

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

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