Robert Menzies: Quotes about women

Robert Menzies was Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia. Explore interesting quotes on women.
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“Women are unquestionably destined to exercise more and more influence upon practical politics in Australia”

Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Context: Women are unquestionably destined to exercise more and more influence upon practical politics in Australia…In the educating of the electorate in liberal ideas they have for many years been an effective force. Now we have an organisation in which all distinctions have gone, and with men and women working equally for the one body …

“In the long run, will our community not be a stronger, better balanced and more intelligent community when the last artificial disabilities imposed upon women by centuries of custom have been removed?”

Women in War speech, broadcast from Sydney, Australia — February 20, 1942
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Source: http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/women_in_war.htm