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1892^1983 Anglo-Irish   novelist,   journalist,   biographer   and   critic.   She trained for  the  stage but her  involvement  with the  suffragettes led  her   into   journalism,   and  her   studies   arising   out  of   the Nuremberg  war  trials  include The  Meaning  of  Treason  (1947) and  A  Train  of   Powder   (1955).  She  bore  a   son  to  H  G  Wells during an affair  which lasted10 years.

Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.

1912  'The Personal ServiceAssociation:Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilisation has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— 1912  'The Personal ServiceAssociation:Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

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I saw in my own education some of the things which eat the power out of women. Wharton

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— 1913  'Training inTruculence:TheWorkingWomen's College', in The Clarion,14 Feb.

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We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— 1913  'The SexWar: DisjointedThoughts on Men', in The Clarion, 18 Apr.

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I have horrible nightmares of Sir Almwroth Wright's limp sentences wandering through the arid desert of his mind looking for dropped punctuation marks.

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— 1913  'Lynch Law:TheTragedy of Ignorance', in The Clarion, 17 Oct. AlmwrothWright was oneof the most vocalopponents of women's suffrage.

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Who is there in that lot one would want as a father, except perhaps MrsThatcher? That choice would be irregular but safe.

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— 1982  Of British Prime Ministers.1900, introduction.

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There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

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— Attributed.

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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if the nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Dame Rebecca Formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
— "The Meaning of Treason" (Revised edition, 1965), Conclusion, p. 413.

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