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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.

Sylvia Pankhurst

International solidarity is a sentiment which only attains a sturdy growth amongst those who are fully convinced that capitalism has had its day.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Some people say that the lives of working women are too hard and their education too small for them to become a powerful voice in winning the vote. Such people have forgotten their history.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

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Born: May 5, 1882

Died: September 27, 1960 (aged 78)

Bio: Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism.

Known for:

Suffragette movement (1931)
The life of Emmeline Pankhurst (1935)
Ex-Italian Somaliland (1951)

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