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(Concerning women's right to vote) my mother always vigorously supported the necessity of this reform.

— Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie, une féministe engagée ? (2012)

(En ce qui concerne le vote des femmes) ma mère a toujours soutenu énergiquement la nécessité de cette réforme.

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