"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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"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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"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."

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