“I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard”
– Malala Yousafzai

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman”
– Virginia Woolf

“There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground”
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman”
– Melinda Gates

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired … I was no more tired than I was at the end of a working day … the only tired I was, was tired of giving in”
– Rosa Parks

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women”
— Maya Angelou

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”
– Charlotte Bronte [in Jane Eyre]

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair”
– Shirley Chisholm, first black woman member of US Congress

“When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous”
– Michelle Obama

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”
– Margaret Thatcher

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back”
— Malala Yousafzai

International Women’s Day, 8th March

Adrian Brendel at Port Regis

CELLIST Adrian Brendel, now the director of Bath’s Mozart and Bach festivals, comes to the Farrington Hall at Port Regis near Shaftesbury on Saturday 14th March to perform works by Beethoven, Faure and Prokofiev.

He will be joined by pianist Alasdair Beatson, who has stepped in following the withdrawal of Viv McLean, as advertised. The programme remains unchanged.

The concert is part of the Shaftesbury Chamber Music Series, which ends this season on Sunday 12th April when The Aquinas Piano Trio will play Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich. Both performances begin at 5pm.

For more information about the performances and ticket availability, visit www.ruthrogers.net or www.ticketsource.co.uk/shaftesbury-chamber-music-series/t-plzdolo

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Adrian Brendel at Port Regis