"The clothes are a symbol, though. A lot of the fighting for the rest of it has begun wiv a denial of looking the way a woman is supposed to look. Even at home there's still all sorts of fuss going on about what a woman should and shouldn't wear, and the rest of it is all stuff we're really still working on. It's not perfect yet.
"All the same, at her age, she'd have been brought up in the midst of all this women's rights business. She wouldn't be so on her own, and unsupported."
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"The clothes are a symbol, though. A lot of the fighting for the rest of it has begun wiv a denial of looking the way a woman is supposed to look. Even at home there's still all sorts of fuss going on about what a woman should and shouldn't wear, and the rest of it is all stuff we're really still working on. It's not perfect yet.
"All the same, at her age, she'd have been brought up in the midst of all this women's rights business. She wouldn't be so on her own, and unsupported."