“I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.” — Michael Pryor Copy Share Image
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. — Kate Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Albert’s shutters may have kept out the suffragettes: they did not effectively exclude the Furies.” — Anthony Powell 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
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
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
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
My awakening to the fight for women's votes came when I was 13, and the BBC screened a drama called 'Shoulder to… — Emily Thornberry 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
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
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Since finding out my great-great-grandma was connected to the suffragettes, I've learned so much more about them. I feel really proud of… — Michelle Keegan Copy Share Image
“But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in… — Sheryl Sandberg 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
“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
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
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened… — Marguerite Young 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
“The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
People feel much more comfortable with the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' version of women's liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“Years ago I predicted that these suffragettes, tried out by victory, would turn out to be idiots. They are now hard at… — H.L. Mencken 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 Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.” quote by Anna Howard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d12/anna-howard-shaw-22641_anna_valentine-s-day-is-a-sham-created-by-car_1030864.jpg)
![“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…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e2a/george-bernard-shaw-68_amendments_during-the-suffragette-revolt-of-1913-i_1230765.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Sarah Gavron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/56f/sarah-gavron-53093_cinematic_i-had-wanted-to-make-this-film-suffraget_1650094.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Indira Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/987/indira-gandhi-1113_distracted_until-i-was-about-eighteen-yes-i-didn-t_1710683.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Sarah Gavron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e80/sarah-gavron-53093_access_we-petitioned-to-get-access-to-film-suff_2954008.jpg)
