The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of wo…

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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. ✨ Letter to Alexander Bain, 14 July 1869, in Hugh S. R. Elliot (ed.) 'Letters of John Stuart Mill' vol. 2 (1910)
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. ✨ Letter to Alexander Bain, 14 July 1869, in Hugh S. R. Elliot (ed.) 'Letters of John Stuart Mill' vol. 2 (1910)

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