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

— Pura Villanueva Kalaw

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

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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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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