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The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. . . painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Source: In The Fighting Pankhursts, pt. 5, ch. 3, by David Mitchell, 1967.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst, (Jan 18 1882-1960), English suffragist; She launched, with her daughters, the British feminist movement; forerunner of the US version; won women's voting rights, 1918.

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