some type of adult girl

retentivehysteric:

“I was born several centuries too early. I don’t look enslaved. I dress in men’s clothes not only because they are more practical, but because my outfit tells men “I am your equal”. In our masculine world, suits, hats and short hair are symbols of freedom. I like to exteriorise my ideas, to wear them the way a nun wears her religious beliefs. We live in a world where short-haired suit-wearers have all the freedom, all the power, well, then! I too shall wear suits and have short hair.”

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Written in the newspaper La Suffragiste in January 1912 by Madeleine Pelletier, first female psychiatrist in France. She advocated female celibacy as a weapon of liberation “so women will realise that the ties that bind them to men are artificial and they are free to untie them”; she also wrote “I will only wear outfits that show my cleavage on the day men start wearing a new sort of trousers that shows their…” She died in 1939 in an insane asylum, where she was committed after practising an abortion on a 13-year-old girl raped by her brother. She was denounced to the police by said brother, but being declared insane at least spared her the guillotine, the usual sanction for abortionists.

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