Women's Suffrage Day September 19

I niver cared for polyticks,
I nurse me childher three —
But one fine day a come-at-tay
Of ladies read a pome
On Woman's Rights, an from that night
My Barney stays at home

About debates an sich like prates,
I do not care two sthraws,
But I've been to[unclear: u]ld me jewtey is
To go an make the laws....

'Mrs Mulrooney' in The Triumph of Women's Rights.

Thomas Bracken, Auckland, 1891.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realised in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Mao Tsetung, Introductory note to "Women Have Gone to the Labour Front" (1955). The Socialist Upsurge in China's Country side.