I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

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…

— Vida Goldstein

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race,…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Listen, I'm rebellious. Okay? I always have been.

— Erika Jayne

“I will not live by rules like those.”

— Sophocles

I do have a rebellious spirit.

— Gail Bradbrook

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are…

— Flea

“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be destructive, because…

— Kamand Kojouri

I do have a slightly rebellious streak in me, I'm afraid.

— Sarah Lancashire

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

— John Cusack