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Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times · Chapter 61Militants

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Hippolta, Penthesilea,

Maria Teresa and Joan,

Agustina and Boadicea

And some militant girls of our own—

It would take a brave man and a dull one

To say to these ladies: “Of course

We adore you while meek,

Timid, clinging and weak,

But a woman can never use force.”