If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. (Shirley Abbott)

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Shirley Abbott

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