Women Had Always Fought For Men, And

I Thought I Had Been A Suffragist Before I Became A Poor Law Guardian, But Now I Began To Think About The Vote In Women's Hands Not Only As A Right But As A Desperate Necessity.

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.

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.

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.

I Have Never Advised The Destruction Of Life, But Of Property, Yes.