Pura Villanueva Kalaw

Pura Villanueva Kalaw

Purificacion "Pura" Garcia Villanueva-Kalaw (27 August 1886 -21 March 1954) was a Filipina beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer.

Quotes

• Women, by their extraordinary talent, their subjugating beauty, their decided courage, and their virile spirit, have often caused changes in the social scene.

• Long before 1905, I had started preaching the gospel of the feminists: ‘What a man can do a woman can do just as well.

• I had no brother. My father was anxious to have a son… Thus my training convinced me that woman suffrage was a great need.
  • https://www.academia.edu/79504272/Understanding_the_political_thought_of_Pura_Villanueva_Kalaw

• I shall try to perform my duties in a way that shall please everyone.
  • https://manilacarnivals.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-1908-queen-of-orient-pura-garcia.html