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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.
         

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.


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