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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.

Often I Have Heard The Taunt That Suffragists Are Women Who Have Failed To Find Any Normal Outlet For Their Emotions, And Are Therefore Soured And Disappointed Beings. This Is Probably Not True Of Any Suffragist, And It Is Most Certainly Not True Of Me. My Home Life And Relations Have Been As Nearly Ideal As Possible In This Imperfect World.

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 Had To Get A Close-hand View Of The Misery And Unhappiness Of A Man Made World, Before I Reached The Point Where I Could Successfully Revolt Against It.

How Different The Reasoning Is That Men Adopt When They Are Discussing The Cases Of Men And Those Of Women.