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Alison Neilans

  • Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

    • Alison Neilans,
    • "Changes in Sex Morality," in Ray Strachey, ed., Our Freedom and Its Results ()
  • ... until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

    • Alison Neilans,
    • "Changes in Sex Morality," in Ray Strachey, ed., Our Freedom and Its Results ()
  • The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.

    • Alison Neilans,
    • "Changes in Sex Morality," in Ray Strachey, ed., Our Freedom and Its Results ()

Alison Neilans, English suffragist, imprisoned 3 times

(1984 - 1942)

Full name: Alison Roberta Noble Neilans.