"The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women."

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Source : Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

Millicent Fawcett

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“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”
“I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.”

Source : "Beau Mirchoff Of MTV’s ‘Awkward’ Talks About High School Insecurities On HuffPost Live". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.
“The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.”
“Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.”
“Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”
“The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue”
“I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.”

Source : "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.
“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”

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