Christabel Pankhurst quotes

Christabel Pankhurst quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”
-- Christabel Pankhurst

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
“I want in all cases to do right.”
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”
“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”
“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”

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