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The question is often asked, "What do women want?" We want men "to stand out of our sunshine"; that is all.

— Margaret Sievwright

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...I would rather have this new woman - even in her occasional perversity, exaggeration, and revolt - than the female oyster who discovers no interest in life outside the limits of her own shell.

The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recognises her restrictions, and she further recognises that these restrictions must be struggled against, not in the direction of denying her nature, but rather of shaking off every artificial restraint and repression which will in any way hinder her own full and free development...

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