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The Carnes, she knew, were not Poor People. Poor people lived in cottages; the Carnes lived in a Hall, which was the biggest house for miles round, with a smoking-room and a breakfast-room and three sets of staircases and a top floor nobody ever used now, and a drive nearly half a mile long.

— Winifred Holtby

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While the inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist and an Old Feminist, with the motto Equality First.

Feminism Divided (1926)

The ‘normal’ woman knows that, given freedom and equality before the law, she can be trusted to safeguard her own interests as wife, mother, daughter, or what you will.

Black Words for Women Only (1934)

Those who prepare for war get it.

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Women, they told themselves, had been excluded from the highly-skilled and better-paid industrial posts for two or more generations. They had been told that certain processes were beyond their power. It was a lie.

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