Suffrage Movement Quotes

“My great-aunt, and other people's great-aunts, won all the rights that women need ages ago. All that's been lacking since then is the social courage to use them. My great-aunt and the rest thought that by technically defeating male privilege they'd scored a great victory. What they didn't realize is that the greatest enemies of women aren't men at all, they are women: silly women, lazy women, and smug women.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“Sometimes I think there may be more than two sides.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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

“I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.”
― Elaine Weiss, The Woman's Hour

“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”
― Emily Wilding Davidson

“What is treated as of no value is apt to grow valueless”
― Barbara Bodichon

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

“Mary Neal began the Morris dance revival. For nearly a decade she drove it forward. She strove not for personal gain or achievement but to right the many injustices suffered by women in the years before the First World War, as much through dance as through her militant activism. The early years of the revival coincided with political turmoil. That the Morris revival took off at all was due to her radicalism and involvement in the Labour movement. It was not a coincidence that the Esperance danced at WSPU events or that high-profile suffragettes led the dancers; Mary’s commitment to equality and social justice was why she had formed the Esperance and the Esperance Guild. And it was her radicalism that kickstarted the Morris revival.”
― kathryn atherton, Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing