"The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recognises her restrictions, and she further recognises that these restrictions must be struggled against, not in the direction of denying her nature, but rather of shaking off every artificial restraint and repression which will in any way hinder her own full and free development..."
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Alicia Taylor's "Margaret Home Sievwright and the Fight for "United Womanhood"" Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. Published: 6 December 2018. Accessed: 4 February 2026.
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Margaret Sievwright
Margaret Home Sievwright (née Richardson; 19 March 1844 – 9 March 1905), known as Margaret Sievwright, was an active political figure and feminist in temperance and suffrage movements, later becoming the president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand.
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