Pura Villanueva Kalaw

Quotes

• “Women, by their extraordinary talent, their subjugating beauty, their decided courage, and their virile spirit, have often caused changes in the social scene.”
• “Long before 1905, I had started preaching the gospel of the feminists: ‘What a man can do a woman can do just as well.”
• “I had no brother. My father was anxious to have a son… Thus my training convinced me that woman suffrage was a great need.”
• “I shall try to perform my duties in a way that shall please everyone.”

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