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“We have to build a smaller house with all the amenities of the better houses before the war to give your wives the chance to be truly emancipated.”

— Gertrude Bray

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“People thought I was mad being a builder. There was terrible prejudice.”

“How often do we get the position where a woman in a good job, commanding a good salary, has to be twice as good as a man to get his salary?”

“If men were having the babies they would soon see to it. By doing so they would be serving humanity better than by inventing atomic bombs.”

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