"There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways."

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When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.

— Dale Spender