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And I start to dream - about the activities of women for temperance and the suffrage in this country, and about the activism of women for peace and disarmament; and I wonder if our great-grandmothers would have believed suffrage would be almost universal, and if we dare to dream of a world without nuclear weapons, without weapons, with peace.

— Marilyn Waring

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I don't believe we shall ever be finished.

If you got this far, I want you to go on. Kia kaha tuahine - sister, be strong.

I made a submission opposing the Civil Union legislation. Marriage is a civil and political right, and civil and political rights are not negotiable. You can't have half a right.

I am still afraid of getting too tired, of giving up. I am still afraid of staying in the job, and afraid of leaving it.

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