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21 " [Peter the Great] also wanted women to take off their veils and mingle with men at social gatherings. He even wanted them to have tutors and be educated like men. "
― Susan Wise Bauer , Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners (The Story of the World, #3)
22 " Despite the starvation and the hard work, some of the prisoners realized that life in Australia was actually better than life back in England. In England, they had been beggars with no way to get land of their own. "
23 " ...there were three men for every woman in Australia! Australia needed women. A committee in London was formed to send young women to Australia for only five pounds. "