“There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats”

“There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats. How is a poor little man to get on with a couple of women wearing enormous hats in front of him?”

From: ‘Women’s suffrage 10 reasons why men opposed votes for women’, on the BBC website here.