Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
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We have to think of a question that we wouldn't otherwise want to answer.' He stood over the pot, looking down at the leaves. 'Something like, Who do you fancy?' 'That might work,' I said, even though it was the last question I wanted to answer. But ...
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They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church ...
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to we...
