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While the inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist and an Old Feminist, with the motto Equality First.

— Winifred Holtby Feminism Divided (1926)

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The ‘normal’ woman knows that, given freedom and equality before the law, she can be trusted to safeguard her own interests as wife, mother, daughter, or what you will.

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Those who prepare for war get it.

Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain (1940)

Women, they told themselves, had been excluded from the highly-skilled and better-paid industrial posts for two or more generations. They had been told that certain processes were beyond their power. It was a lie.

The Carnes, she knew, were not Poor People. Poor people lived in cottages; the Carnes lived in a Hall, which was the biggest house for miles round, with a smoking-room and a breakfast-room and three sets of staircases and a top floor nobody ever used now, and a drive nearly half a mile long.

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