Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

People cannot understand that a women, even if she is a President’s wife, can have independent views.

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

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

Vote for Women – Vote Communist!

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.

I think it's important for women to speak up, it's important to speak up for their rights.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

Strong female leads are important.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.