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In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

She took on the cause of promoting women members of the faculty and equal pay. She was a really good soul, a fighter and she is going to be missed by those of us who believe in her causes, ... She had absolute persistence. She just would not stop or give up until she won the day. Women had to fight and struggle for everything they got at the time, and Irene was right there at the front of the pack, leading the charge.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.