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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

Birthname

AKA Emmeline Pankhurst

Political Parties Women's Party, Conservative Party

Nationality United Kingdom

Occupations Feminist, Suffragette

Spouse Richard Pankhurst

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One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

— Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in. Soon I found myself sickening for fresh air. My head began to ache. Sleep fled. I lay all night suffering with cold, gasping for air, aching with fatigue, and painfully wide awake.

— Emmeline Pankhurst, via books.google.com

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"

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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

— John McCain, McCain's convention speech

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Everybody has a soulmate. But they're usually on the other side of the bars, or the wall, or the planet from you. That's the way the universe works.

— Galina 'Red' Reznikov (Kate Mulgrew), Orange Is the New Black, Season 3: Trust No Bitch

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The worst thing about prison was the dementors.

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Are you cooking a frittata in a sauce pan? What is this – prison?

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Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

— Norman Parker, via www.goodreads.com

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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

— Oscar Wilde, The Coming Nation

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I was given a cell occupied by five other men. It was infested with vermin, and sewer rates scurried back and further over the floors of that human cesspool in such numbers that it was almost impossible for me to place my feet on the stone floor. Those rats were nearly as big as cats, and vicious.

— Eugene V. Debs, Seeds Of Revolution

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

— Eldridge Cleaver, The New York Times Magazine

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In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

— Suge Knight, Suge Knight

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It taught me among other things the relativity of freedom. Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.’

— Arthur Koestler, The Paris Review

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Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

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He was a midget in the big house, see? And he tried to escape by wiggling through a mouse hole after lights out, but he outsmarted himself, see? Cuz it wasn't a mouse hole, it was a light socket, and somebody turned the lights on.

— Fred Flintstone (Alan Reed), The Flintstones, Season 2: Alvin Brickrock Presents

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The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

— Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption

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Prison is no fairy-tale world.

— Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (Morgan Freeman), The Shawshank Redemption

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And guys in here go through tremendous struggles inwardly. A lot of them, you know, play the macho role and keep things inside. But I know a lot of guys who cry on their pillow at night.

— David Berkowitz, via transcripts.cnn.com

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Fate is a prison. When free will is gone, what’s left?

— Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee), DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 1: Night of The Hawk

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Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword.

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Rehabilitation is a fairy tale.

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They stripped us naked and chained us up to a door, and then turned the fire hose on us until we were black and blue and half blind.

— Carl Panzram, via www-rohan.sdsu.edu

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Nicky: You read that? What, you studied for prison?

— Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols (Natasha Lyonne), Orange Is the New Black, Season 1: I Wasn't Ready

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They're prisons. Manmade prisons. You're doing time. You get up in the morning. She's there. You go to sleep at night. She's there. It's like you gotta ask permission to use the bathroom. ‘Is it all right if I use the bathroom now?’

— Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), Seinfeld, Season 7: The Engagement

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