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. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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