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  • If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

    - Germaine Greer
      The Female Eunuch,'Soul:  Womanpower'.

  •    It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging theworld intoawelterof bloodshedand death.

    - David, 1st Earl Lloyd George (of Dwyfor)
      Speech in Queen's Hall, London, 21 Sep.

  • Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women, until men in considerable number are prepared to join with them in the undertaking.

    -John Stuart Mill
      The Subjection of  Women, ch.3.

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