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Pura Villanueva Kalaw Quotes

1886–1954 Philippines

Purificacion "Pura" Garcia Villanueva-Kalaw (27 August 1886 -21 March 1954) was a Filipina beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer.

Philippines
Activists
Beauty pageant winners
Journalists

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I shall try to perform my duties in a way that shall please everyone.

Women, by their extraordinary talent, their subjugating beauty, their decided courage, and their virile spirit, have often caused changes in the social scene.

Long before 1905, I had started preaching the gospel of the feminists: ‘What a man can do a woman can do just as well.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pura Villanueva Kalaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.