A SUFFRAGIST’S CHOICE.
VOTE BEFORE MATRIMONY,
London, April 2.
“Why I Never Married,” is the first of a series of Miss Christabel Pankhurst’s tonfesisons appearing in the Weekly Dispatch. “The answer is easy,” she declares. “I never wanted to. I never happened to see anyone quite individually suited to me.”
Miss Pankhurst avers that even had she felt sorely tempted to marry she would have considered herself unjustified • wi'g ’.€• her “quite special responsirliry for ksdership ” When the task of winning votes for women was definitely taken up, every other interest was dismissed, and hers became a single track in life. Otherwise, she asserts, the Government would have hoped and believed that sooner or later she would abandon militancy, which would then collapse. This involved the most scrupulous safeguards against the appearance that her marriage was contemplated.
“Am I a man-hater?” asks Miss Pankhurst, and answers the question in the negative. “Hatred implies dread,” she says, “and we suffragists certainly did not dread the other sex.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1921, Page 6
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165A SUFFRAGIST’S CHOICE. Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1921, Page 6
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