"A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?"
"It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability."
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Source: Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”
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