Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. — Kate Sheppard Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.” — Michael Pryor Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Just as we tell women today to vote, in honour of the suffragettes who campaigned for the right to do so, we… — Anna Kessel Copy Share Image
"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story.… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
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