emancipation quotes

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

-Greer, Germaine
  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.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  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.

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

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