I Am What You Call

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.

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.

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.

Often I Have Heard The Taunt That Suffragists Are Women Who Have Failed To Find Any Normal Outlet For Their Emotions, And Are Therefore Soured And Disappointed Beings. This Is Probably Not True Of Any Suffragist, And It Is Most Certainly Not True Of Me. My Home Life And Relations Have Been As Nearly Ideal As Possible In This Imperfect World.

Manchester Is A City Which Has Witnessed A Great Many Stirring Episodes, Especially Of A Political Character. Generally Speaking, Its Citizens Have Been Liberal In Their Sentiments, Defenders Of Free Speech And Liberty Of Opinion.