- At a time when women were locked out of politics, she was an active socialist. She fought for equal pay for women, maternal clinics, widow's pensions and workers rights.
- She was FUCKING fearless. As a suffragette, she went on hunger strike 10 times!
- After advocating a socialist revolution in Britain she was convicted of sedition and imprisoned.
- She was against Britain's participation in WW1.
- She campaigned against Franco's fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War and helped Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
- She was a staunch supporter of Ethiopia and her people's struggle against the Italian occupation.
- Sylvia was revolutionary and interesting, whereas Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were both conservative and bland.
- She was against the institution of marriage and refused to marry her Italian lover. Her opposition to getting wed eventually led to her mother cutting contact with her.
dec 5 2015 ∞
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