"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."

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Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Catherine Helen Spence

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“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House
“Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.”
“I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.”
“I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.”
“And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.”
“On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.”
“The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.”
“I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.”

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