Winifrad Holtby

23 June 1898 - 29 September 1935

British journalist, novelist and feminist.

 

While inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist, and an Old Feminist, with the motto Equality First. And I shan'r be happy til I get it.

Testament of a Generation, pub 1985

 

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

 

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