凯瑞·穆里根 | 朗读 埃米琳·潘克赫斯特演讲

Men politicians are in the habit of talking to women as if there were no laws that affect women. ‘The fact is,’ they say, ‘the home is the place for women. Their interests are the rearing and training of children. These are the things that interest women. Politics have nothing to do with these things, and therefore politics do not concern women.’

男性政客习惯于与女性交谈，好像没有影响女性的法律一样。他们说，事实是，家是女人的去处，她们的兴趣是培养孩子，这些都是女性感兴趣的东西。政治与这些事情无关，因此政治与女性无关。

Yet the laws decide how women are to live in marriage, how their children are to be trained and educated, and what the future of their children is to be. All that is decided by Act of Parliament. Let us take a few of these laws, and see what there is to say about them from the women’s point of view.

然而，法律决定了女性如何生活在婚姻中，如何对子女进行培训和教育，以及子女的未来如何发展。所有这些都是由《国会法案》决定的。让我们来看看其中的一些法律，从女性的角度来看它们是怎么说的。

First of all, let us take the marriage laws. They are made by men for women. Let us consider whether they are equal, whether they are just, whether they are wise. What security of maintenance has the married woman? Many a married woman having given up her economic independence in order to marry, how is she compensated for that loss?

首先，让我们看看婚姻法，它们是由男人为女人而制定的。让我们想想这些法律是否平等，是否公正，是否明智。已婚女性用什么维持生活的保障？许多已婚女性为了结婚而放弃了经济独立，她应如何弥补这一损失？

What security does she get in that marriage for which she gave up economic independence? Take the case of a woman who has been earning a good income. She is told that she ought to give up her employment when she becomes a wife and mother. What does she get in return?

在放弃经济独立的那段婚姻中，女性得到了什么样的保障？以一个曾经收入丰厚的女性为例，当她成为妻子和母亲时，被告知她应该放弃工作。那么她可以得到什么回报？

All that a married man is obliged by law to do for his wife is to provide for her shelter of some kind, food of some kind, and clothing of some kind. It is left to his good pleasure to decide what the shelter shall be, what the food shall be, what the clothing shall be.

法律规定已婚男子为妻子做的所有事情就是为其提供住所，食物和衣物等。住所，食物，衣服应该是什么，都由丈夫的美意所决定。

It is left to him to decide what money shall be spent on the home, and how it shall be spent. The wife has no voice legally in deciding any of these things. She has no legal claim upon any definite portion of his income.

家里花什么钱，钱怎么花，这些都由丈夫决定。妻子在这些事情上没有任何合法的发言权，妻子对丈夫明确收入部分不存在合法要求。

If he is a good man, a conscientious man, he does the right thing. If he is not, if he chooses almost to starve his wife, she has no remedy. What he thinks sufficient is what she has to be content with.

如果丈夫是一个好人，一个尽心尽责的人，他会做正确的事。但如果他不是呢，如果他让妻子忍饥挨饿，她就没有补救办法。妻子必须满足于丈夫所认为的富足。

The more one thinks about the importance of the vote for women, the more one realizes how vital it is. We are finding out new reasons for the vote. We need new needs for the vote every day in carrying on our agitation.

对赋予女性投票权重要性思考的人越多，会有越多人意识到投票的重要性。我们正在寻找投票的新理由，我们每天都需要新的投票需求，来不断激励刺激我们。

I hope there may be a few men and women here who will go away determine to at least give this question more consideration than they may have in the past. They will see that we women who are doing so much to get the vote, want it because we realize how much good we can do with it when we’ve got it.

我希望在座的一些男士和女士在集会结束后，他们至少会决定比过去更多地考虑这个问题。他们会看到我们这些女性，为获得选票而付出巨大努力。因为我们意识到，当我们得到选票时，我们可以做到多好。

We do not want it in order to boast of how much we have got. We do not want it because we want to imitate men or be like men. We want it because without it we cannot do the work that is necessary and right and proper that every man and woman should be ready and willing to undertake in the interest of the community of which they form a part.

我们想要它，不是为了夸耀我们有多大的收获。我们想要它，不是因为我们想模仿男人或像男人一样。我们想要它，是因为没有它，我们就不能做必要的、正确的、适当的工作，每个男人和女人都应该准备，并愿意为他们所组成的社区的利益而承担的这些工作。