Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
2009, Statement: on the Passing of Former President Corazon C. Aquino
On Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice.
2000s
“I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”
Arguing for woman suffrage at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association (12 May 1869); as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1882) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
Part II, Ch. 4
O Pioneers! (1913)
BBC (1979); reported in John Blundell, Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady (2008), page 193.
First term as Prime Minister
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
"When I Shall Fight," Appeal to Reason (11 September 1915) https://socialistworker.org/2004-1/500/500_06_Zinn.php
In Brasília, on 25 April 2019. Fury as far-right president Bolsonaro says Brazil should not become ‘gay tourism paradise’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-gay-tourism-lgbt-sex-interview-comments-a8887226.html. The Independent (26 April 2019).
2010-09-23
Television series
Scarborough Country
MSNBC
Jason
Linkins
Christine O'Donnell Will Stop America From Sexing Each Other (Video)
The Huffington Post
2010-09-24
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/christine-odonnell-will-s_n_738276.html
2010-10-20
to Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation
TV appearances
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
