Never give up the fight.

Andrew 2022-04-20 09:02:10

If the law itself is not fair, then what is the point of following it. Men make laws that bind women, hear sympathy for women's plight, and turn a deaf ear to the rights women really want to fight for.

"We don't want to break the law, we want to make the law."

They are mothers of children, wives of husbands, that is who they are, and nothing else.

They are the caregivers of the children, but they cannot have custody of the children.

They work day and night in the factory, and the labor intensity is even stronger than that of men, but they receive lower wages than men.

They started working in factories at the age of 12. They were molested and sexually assaulted by supervisors, sexually harassed and slandered by other male workers, and their husbands took away their wages, but told them they should have suffered like this.

They are denied the right to education, and when they are intellectually inferior to men, they are told that women are inherently inferior to men and cannot exercise political rights accurately.

They tried to run a newspaper to speak out, but were forcibly silenced again and again.

They tried to fight for their rights peacefully, but were ridiculed, beaten and imprisoned by the police.

They make up half of the world's population, and they deserve equal treatment.

She died under the king's hoof, and traded her life for the world's attention to the feminist movement in London.

With their blood and sacrifices, they questioned the domineering patriarchal rules, resisted the male gaze on women, got rid of the discipline of women in the patriarchal society, and made their daughters no longer suffer the same fate as theirs.

"Vote for women."

"Never surrender."

"We will win."

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Suffragette quotes

  • Emmeline Pankhurst: We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers.

  • Inspector Arthur Steed: The fear is, they won't break, Sir. If one of them dies, we'll have blood on our hands and they'll have their martyr.

    Benedict Haughton: That must not happen, or Mrs Pankhurst will have won.