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It is the woman herself that matters rather than her covering.

— Stella Wolfe Murray

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Quoted in Cowman, K. (2020). "A Matter of Public Interest: Press Coverage of the Outfits of Women MPs 1918–1930". Open Library of Humanities. 6 (2): 17, with reference to reaction to MP Ellen Wilkinson's choice of a bright green dress for an early parliamentary appearance.

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I do not advocate neglecting your parents: honour and succour them, especially in their old age, but don’t stay at home and do housework when you long, body and soul, to fly to the uttermost ends of the earth, there to find your mission in life and your gift to the world.

I have arranged the poems by women in a separate section, irrespective of whether British or American; not in any sense of sexual rivalry, but merely from a natural desire to give them prominence and to show that despite their lack of opportunity, women feel all the poetry of flight and are fully alive to all that progress in aviation means to the world.

the Introduction of Stella Wolfe Murray's The Poetry of Flight (1925)

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