Quotes by Ellen Wilkinson

• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
• Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.
• My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
• But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
• I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.