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The Queen is
most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to
join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's
Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor,
feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly
feeling and propriety.
-- Queen Victoria
1819-1901, Queen of Great
Britain
People call me
feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me
from a doormat or a prostitute.
-- Rebecca West
1892-1983, British Author
If the
abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation,
those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink
from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in
this country.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
1759-1797, British Feminist
Writer
The history of
men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting
perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
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