at the invitation of Manuel Guimarães went to work at O Século (The Century) to primarily cover political events. In an article, "Feminine Solidarity", published 26 April 1907, Quaresma condemned the cloistered life most Portuguese women were forced to lead and argued that the country had an obligation to improve the situation of women. Though in favor of the development of the Portuguese Republic, she approached the argument for Republicanism in feminist terms, arguing in the General Assembly of the Republican League of Portuguese Women for passage of the Divorce Law in 1909, and in 1910 for the economic independence and education of women. In 1910, when Manuel Guimarães left O Século, to found A Capital (The Capital), he encouraged Quaresma to follow him there. She accepted the new post, covering the most important happenings along with her colleague Hermano Neves. These two newspapers were the most important papers in the capital city at the time, and Quaresma used the platform to argue for coeducational schooling, a radical topic at the time. She also recognized the importance of marketing and used her newspaper contacts to create the first advertising agency to be run by a woman, one of the few such agencies in the country at the time. In 1912, Quaresma decided to ply her trade as a journalist in Brazil. In September of that year, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her partner, Maria da Cunha, for whom she also secured employment with the newspaper, A Época, which eventually hired her. In December of that year, Quaresma began covering the femicide of Anita Levy by her husband, the well-known poet, João Barreto. Quaresma not only reported the details of the crime, by following the police investigation and trial, but she framed the story in feminist terms, discussing the violence, Barreto's alcoholism and jealousy, and the lack of legal protection for women from violence. In part thanks to a pressure campaign by the press, Barreto was tried in June 1913, convicted, and sentenced to 21 years, although he would be acquitted in two subsequent retrials. Shortly after the first acquittal, which came in March of 1915, Quaresma returned to Portugal, where she rejoined A Capital. Soon after returning to Lisbon, around 1922, Óscar de Carvalho Azevedo, whom she had known in Brazil, asked Quaresma to head a new organization which focused on presenting news going on in the Americas