Fight Quote by Emily Thornberry

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff,…

— Alastair Campbell

“The contagion of rights-consciousness especially attracted women, who grew more politically engaged than they had been since the achievement of women's suffrage in 1920.…

— James T. Patterson

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

— Cherie Lunghi

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

— Laura Schlessinger

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along…

— Tom Stoppard

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I…

— Adrienne Rich

I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was…

— David Lammy

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow,…

— Jane Fonda

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right…

— Sarah Gavron

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at…

— Lily Collins

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

— Antonio Munoz Molina