"I do not advocate neglecting your parents: honour and succour them, especially in their old age, but don’t stay at home and do housework when you long, body and soul, to fly to the uttermost ends of the earth, there to find your mission in life and your gift to the world."
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People from LeedsWomen's rights activistsWomen activists from the United KingdomWomen born in the 1880sWomen journalists from the United Kingdom
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Quoted in MILLWARD, L. (2007). Women in British Imperial Airspace: 1922-1937. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Stella Wolfe Murray
Stella Wolfe Murray (7 October 1886 – August 1935) was a British journalist and writer. In 1924 she became the first woman Lobby correspondent.
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