Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

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• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  

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• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

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• My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  

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• I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.

  

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• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

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• Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

  

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• I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

  

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• I've always gone for the more understated look.

  

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• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

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• I try to eat super clean: No processed sugars, no corn syrups, nothing frozen in a box that you can microwave. If I read the ingredient label and I don't know what something is, I assume it's bad.

  

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• Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.

  

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• Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

  

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• A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

  

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• 'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'

  

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  

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• I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

  

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• Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

  

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• We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.

  

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• I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

  

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• I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst