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

...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.

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

...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.