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WOMEN'S
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We
have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free
the other half
--Emmeline
Pankhurst | 
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...the
Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We
are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become
law-makers.
--Emmeline
Pankhurst What
is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?
--Emmeline
Pankhurst
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I
never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems
are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
-- Alice Paul I
always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic...Each of us puts in one little stone,
and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
-- Alice
Paul There
will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
-- Alice
Paul | "What
exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction
of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal."
-- Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
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“The
only way to solve the problem of women’s subordination is to change people’s mindset
and to plant the new idea of gender equality into every mind.”
-- Qingrong
Ma | 
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"If
the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world."
-- Jane Roberts,
Co-Founder, 34 Million Friends of UNPF | 
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
-- Ernestine
Rose For
here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from
which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself.
For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the
other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES."
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Ernestine Rose |
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But
remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision,
beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually
victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart
of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
-- Arundhati
Roy *
...a
political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below
it, and within it is no struggle at all.
-- Arundhati
Roy |
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Ordinary
people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers
and their children worldwide
-- Meg
Ryan |
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