“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is...” — Emmeline Pankhurst Quote

“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”

“I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.”

“Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.”

“My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.”

“The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.”

“The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.”

“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”

“In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.”

“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”

“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”