Best Suffragettes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Husbands came home at night with a new eagerness. . . . As for children, their attitudes changed rapidly from one of affectionate toleration for poor, darling mother to one of wide-eyed wonder. Released from the smother of mother love, for she was too busy to be more than casually concerned with them, they discovered that they liked her. She was a great sport. She had guts.”

“From the suffragettes to the civil rights movement, what was once condemned as radical disruption is now celebrated as moral courage. We must remember this pattern – and refuse to let our rights be eroded by fear. This is not new, and we will not be silenced.”

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Author:Charlotte Church

“I'm twenty-two and a woman. One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to school, Captain. Women tend the wounded, make the shells and drive the ambulances.”

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Book:The First Casualty

Source: The First Casualty

“I want to say right here, that those well-meaning friends on the outside who say that we have suffered these horrors of prison, of hunger strikes and forcible feeding, because we desired to martyrise ourselves for the cause, are absolutely and entirely mistaken. We never went to prison in order to be martyrs. We went there in order that we might obtain the rights of citizenship. We were willing to break laws that we might force men to give us the right to make laws.”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“The Women’s March had restored my faith as I am sure it has introduced the young generation to the new wave of feminism. A feminist movement that was made up of both sexes and all ages and creeds, one that did away with the arguments and stood arm in arm for a greater cause, a cause which the Arab media did not wish to project.”

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Author:Aysha Taryam

“Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure.”

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Book:My First Thirty Years

Source: My First Thirty Years

“If she is one of the most valuable of the nation’s citizens she should have a voice in its affairs”

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Author:Constance Smedley

“They have beautified and decorated the shrine, but they have kept it empty of the divinity which gave a significance to the paraphenaila of the shrine”

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Author:Emily Wilding Davidson

“Well, we are showing them that government does not rest upon force at all: it rests upon consent”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which personally I think is rather a mouthful,' Adelaide said as she set down her wineglass. 'I'm sure others have much shorter terms,' the doctor said, sawing into his steak with more vigor than necessary. 'Such as?' Grace asked. 'There are plenty who just call us bitches, dear.”

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Book:A Madness So Discreet

Source: A Madness So Discreet

“I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.”

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Book:Hour of Need

Source: Hour of Need

“Don't let your husband feel you are a 'dear little woman' but no good intellectually. If you find yourself getting stale, wake up your brain. Let there be nothing your husband can talk about that you will be unable to understand. Don't profess to know nothing about politics. Any man who is worth his salt does care, and many men learn to despise women as a whole because their wives take such an unintelligent attitude.”

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Book:Don'ts for Wives

Source: Don'ts for Wives

“The suffragettes were easy to condemn, but hard to ignore. Their actions also boosted donations to peaceful, law-abiding suffragist societies. Many of those who claimed to be repelled by the militants were what we would now call "concern trolls" pretending to care about the success of a movement they never supported anyway.”

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Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.”

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Book:Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement

Source: Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement

“She stood staring out into the void. 'One woman's mishap - what is that? A thing as trivial to the great world as it's sordid in most eyes. But the time has come when a woman may look about her and say, What general significance has my secret pain? Does it "join on" to anything? And I find it *does*. I'm no longer simply a woman who has stumbled on the way.' With difficulty she controlled the shake in her voice. 'I'm one who has got up bruised and bleeding, wiped the dust from her hands and the tears from her face - and said to herself not merely: Here's one luckless woman! but - here is a stone of stumbling to many. Let's see if it can't be moved out of other women's way. And she calls people to come and help.”

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Book:The Convert

Source: The Convert

“An original inscription,” I continued, “reads, ‘Woman first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declaring herself an entity to be reckoned.”

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Book:Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

Source: Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“Ook in Europa werd in deze jaren her en der gedemonstreerd tegen de verhoging van de defensie-uitgaven – in Nederland bijvoorbeeld tegen de nieuwe Vlootwet – en gewaarschuwd voor een nieuwe wapenwedloop. Voor Eleanor moest dit een kruistocht worden tegen de oorlog, even machtig als de kruistocht tegen de slavernij, even machtig als de kruistocht van de suffragettebeweging. In de jaren daarna werd ze een centrale figuur binnen de Amerikaanse anti-oorlogsprotesten.”

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Book:Wisselwachter

Source: Wisselwachter

“You remember I almost shot Roger Babson one morning when I thought he was a wild turkey.”

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Book:The Marvelous Journals of Miss Virginia Pettingill

Source: The Marvelous Journals of Miss Virginia Pettingill

“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.”

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Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

“During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”

“"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.”

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Author:Sarah Gavron

“I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.”

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Author:Sarah Gavron

“The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.”

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Author:Sarah Gavron

“We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.”

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Author:Sarah Gavron

“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.”

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Author:Sarah Gavron

“Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.”

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Book:Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper

Source: Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper

“Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!”

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Author:Jennifer Worth

“Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.”

“You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.”

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Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”

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Author:Violet Trefusis

“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.”

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Book:Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21

Source: Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21

“The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.”

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Author:Barbara Tuchman

“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”

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Author:Kate Sheppard

“Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.”

“Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were "wrong" in their own time and think, ah well.”

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Author:Bob Brown

“And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.”

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Author:Paul McCartney