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Feminist

adjective

Of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women.

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"Feminist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nobel Prize for literature in 1909, her name is known in this country—if at all—as author of a children's book only. All her other works, including novels and feminist essays, have been unavailable in English for almost ...

— The Treasure • Selma Lagerlof

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... in all its episodes." He does not idealise the sex, like George Meredith, nor yet does he describe the baseness of the Eternal Simpleton, as do so many French novelists. He is not always complimentary: witness the portrait of Mrs. Fyne in Chance, or the mosaic of anti-feminist opinions to be found in that story. That he succeeded better with his men is a commonplace of all masculine writers, not that women always succeed with their sex, but to many masters of imaginative ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

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