"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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