Maud Watts Quotes in Suffragette (2015)

Maud Watts: We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only language men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing else left!

Inspector Arthur Steed: And there's nothing left but to stop you.

Maud Watts: What you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You might lose your life before this is over.

Maud Watts: We will win.

Maud Watts: Dear Inspector Steed. I thought about your offer, and I have to say no. You see, I am a suffragette after all. You told me no one listens to girls like me. Well I can't have that anymore. All my life, I've been respectful, done what men told me. I know better now. I'm worth no more, no less than you. Mrs. Pankhurst said, "If it's right for men to fight for their freedom, then it's right for women to fight for theirs." If the law says I can't see my son, I will fight to change that law. We're both foot soldiers, in our own way. Both fighting for our cause. I won't betray mine. Will you betray yours? If you thought I would, you were wrong about me. Yours sincerely, Maud Watts.

[last lines]

Maud Watts: And reason, said to her, "Silence. What do you hear?" And she said, "I hear the sound of feet. A thousand times, ten thousands of thousands of thousands and they beat this way." They are the feet of those that shall follow you. Lead on.

Sonny Watts: I took you on, Maud. Thought I could straighten you out.

Maud Watts: What if you don't have to?

Sonny Watts: You're a mother, Maud. You are a wife. You're my wife, and that's all you're meant to be.

Maud Watts: I'm not just that anymore.

Maud Watts: Your mother's name is Maud Watts. Don't forget that name. Because, I'll be waiting for you to find me. Will you find me George? Don't forget it.

Maud Watts: You a suffragette, Mrs. Ellyn?

Edith Ellyn: Yes, well I consider myself more a soldier, Mrs Watts.

David Lloyd George: What would the vote mean to you, Mrs. Watts?

Maud Watts: I never thought we'd get the vote. So, I've never thought about what it would mean.

David Lloyd George: So, why are you here?

Maud Watts: I thought that - we might. That this life - there's another way of livin' this life. Sorry. My words...

David Lloyd George: No. No. The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Maud Watts: They lied to us!

Inspector Arthur Steed: They didn't lie. They promised nothing, they gave nothing.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You know, there was a housekeeper on her way back when the bomb went off. She forgot her gloves. If she was two minutes later - what would that have done for your cause? Violence doesn't discern! It takes the innocent and the guilty! What gives you the right to put that woman's life at risk?

Maud Watts: What gave you the right - to stand in the middle of a riot and watch women beaten and do nothing? You're a hypocrite.

Inspector Arthur Steed: I uphold the law.

Maud Watts: The law means nothing to me - I've had no say in making the law.

Inspector Arthur Steed: Look at me.

Maud Watts: He deserved it. If I told you...

Inspector Arthur Steed: And do you think anyone listens to a girl like you? That anyone cares? They don't. You're nothing in the world. I grew up with girls like you, Maud. People who sacrifice life for revenge and a cause. I know you. And so do they. They know how to draw on girls like you. Girls without money or prospects who want things to be better. They primp and the preen and they fluff you and they tell you - you are the foot soldiers of the cause. But, you're only fodder - for a battle none of you can win.

Violet Miller: There's a big gatherin' Friday. They're saying she's to speak.

Maud Watts: I can't go. I can't.

Violet Miller: You can't not.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You women cleaned yourselves up well. Couldn't find a scrap of dynamite on any of you.

Maud Watts: Then why am I here?