The system--the American one, at least--is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But f...rom kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through ...property that we shall strike the enemy.... Be militant each in your own way.... I incite this meeting to rebellion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through prop...erty that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to... face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all th...e papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...men's double standard of sex morals, whereby the victims of their lust are counted as outcasts, while the men themselves escape... all social censure, really applies to morals in all departments of life. Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction ...men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness. Time alone will reveal what reward will be allotted to women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »