Nellie, the life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba Quotes

“People think I cannot sing and cook, and now imagine that I cannot believe in women’s suffrage and at the same time know anything about the kitchen. I am an ardent suffragette and yet I think it would be hard to find a woman more interested in her home than I am… Anyone who knows the world knows that the woman’s way to obtain her end is not by violence. I, for instance, employ my butler. Yet my butler has more to say about the taxes I pay than I have. That does not seem to me to be right. I hope that in time a way will he found to change this injustice, but it won’t be via the militant suffragette.”
― Robert Wainwright, Nellie: The Life and Loves of a Diva