As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

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

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.

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.

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive.