Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

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.

It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.

Justice and judgement lie often a world apart."~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

We shall progress inch by inch.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.