Meryl Streep's Sufragettes Emmeline Pankhurst

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This speech is one of the most influential of the 20th century so the author was named as one of the 100 Most Important People of this century by Time Magazine in 1999.
Regarding the importance of this speech,historically is often considered that it´s the start of the western feminist movements to advocate for its rights.
Its importance is reflected in the present and in the movie where Meryl Streep plays Sufragettes Emmeline Pankhurst. Reference is also made to the person in the song Sufragette sister in the Disney movie "Mary Poppins" written by the Sherman Brothers.
This movement later inspired Virginia Woolf to write A Room of One's Own in 1929, considered a feminist text, which shows the difficulties that women go through to engage the

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