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.

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

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

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

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

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.