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This my dear friend is the one truly great contribution of my Wonder Woman strip to moral education of the young. The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound--enjoy submission to kind authority, wise authority, not merely tolerate such submission. Wars will only cease when humans enjoy being bound.

— William Moulton Marston The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014)

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The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women in all fields of human activity.

Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?

Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939)

Not even the church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion picture company.

A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion it train people seeing it to react abnormally.

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

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