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'I wanted the world to get better, and I knew it couldn't if it was ruled by men'
In this clip from the Woman's Hour archive, Nancy Astor talks about breaking boundaries as the first female MP.
"They'd rather have had a rattlesnake in the house than me," she said of her male colleagues, who included Winston Churchill.
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