Quote by Anthony Powell

“But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.”

— Kate Atkinson

“The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.”

— Liane Moriarty

“I have found life to be merciless, allowing the suffrage of innocents.”

— Deanna L. Lawlis

“Years ago I predicted that these suffragettes, tried out by victory, would turn out to be idiots. They are now hard at work proving…

— H.L. Mencken

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces,…

— Sarah Gavron

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic…

— Jane Austen

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford

“...But it was above all that fragmentation of Albertine into many parts, into many Albertines, that was her sole mode of existence in me.…

— Anonymous

“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing”

— Kate Atkinson