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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.
Dame Rebecca Formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield West— Attributed.
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.
