Emmeline Pankhurst

The only way to reform the laws is to break them.

We are not here to obey laws; we are here to make laws.

You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs.

I have been a prisoner many times, and I have always come out more determined.

We have awakened the women of England.

If men had to fight for the vote, they would have done it with far more violence than women.

The ballot is the only way to get justice for women.

We are not afraid of anything, except injustice.

I was born a rebel.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else.

We are not here to break laws, we are here to see that the laws are made.

We are not asking for a vote, we are demanding it.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

I am here to say that I am a law-breaker. I am here to say that I have broken the law, and I shall break it again.

We have been called militant, and we are militant, when we are fighting for a just cause.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in peace and with respect.

Men make the moral code and expect women to bow down to it.

We are not asking for the right to govern, but for the right to live.

We have tried every way, every method we could think of to get this question of women's enfranchisement considered.

We were not put into this world to be kept in a cage and given sugar plums.