The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movemen…

Ellen Key
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ✨ Ellen Key (2016). The century of the child, p.32, Ellen Key
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