"Comment is free," wrote Guardian editor CP Scott in 1921, "but facts are sacred".
In her book, she republished many letters that inmates wrote to her. "When I took this picture, I was thinking about being free," wrote Tyler Miesse, who posed before a snow-capped mountain in prison in Aberdeen, Wash.
"It's my opinion that music should not be free," wrote Taylor Swift in a piece for the Wall Street Journal last year, shortly after removing her music from Spotify.
"I want you to know that I'm here until the end and until you are free," wrote Maha Hilal, a WAT member, in a letter to detainees that was shared with the Guardian.
In theory, women were liberated by the war - 'It found them serfs and left them free,' wrote Millicent Fawcett - but in practice, waitresses, shopgirls, clerks and typists worked for 10 or 12 hours a day, ill-paid and malnourished ('30 bob a week and never enough to eat'), with no security, no pensions and no money to spend on medication, let alone hairdos or holidays.
"Like the Pilgrims, they fled their homeland yearning for a place where they could be free," wrote Todd Starnes, a bigot who appears on Fox News, in a recent article on the plight of the Romeikes that gives the unfortunate impression they're here to spread disease, slaughter the natives, and steal their land.
