Ida Tarbell - The Business of Being a Woman (1912)

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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world — a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

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