...the Way To Reform Has Always Led

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.

Those Men And Women Are Fortunate Who Are Born At A Time When A Great Struggle For Human Freedom Is In Progress. It Is An Added Good Fortune To Have Parents Who Take A Personal Part In The Great Movements Of Their Time. I Am Glad And Thankful That This Was My Case.

Every Principle Of Liberty Enunciated In Any Civilised Country On Earth, With Very Few Exceptions, Was Intended Entirely For Men, And When Women Tried To Force The Putting Into Practice Of These Principles, For Women, Then They Discovered They Had Come Into A Very, Very Unpleasant Situation Indeed.

I Was Fourteen Years Old When I Went To My First Suffrage Meeting. Returning From School One Day, I Met My Mother Just Setting Out For The Meeting, And I Begged Her To Let Me Go Along.

You Have To Make More Noise Than Anybody Else, You Have To Make Yourself More Obtrusive Than Anybody Else, You Have To Fill All The Papers More Than Anybody Else, In Fact You Have To Be There All The Time And See That They Do Not Snow You Under.