Magna Carta For Women Quotes

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Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century. The struggles for that β€œmodest Magna Carta,” as Marx calls it… did not end capitalism, but they changed the relation of the workers to their own lives.
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Adrienne Rich (Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution)
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Magna Carta, the Great Charter of 1215, enshrining the freedom of the Church in England and the liberty of Englishmen. It is now revered all over the world, regardless of the facts that it applied only to free men, leaving women and serfs to live as best they could, and that it was designed to safeguard the interests of the barons who forced King John to sign it, after years of friction between them and the monarch. It was reissued in an amended form in 1225, and at frequent intervals thereafter, but ever since it has been regarded as the bastion of English liberty and the rule of law.
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Liza Picard (Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England)
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It looks like they want to silence women and unions everywhere. And what's it for but money? People are awfully funny. Always thinking lots of money makes them special, and thus superior, and so they ought to exercise the superiority. It's a wonder they don't try to revoke the Magna Carta.
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Sarah-Jane Stratford (Radio Girls)