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The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

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Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.

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.. a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

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Born: January 2, 1857

Died: December 2, 1935 (aged 78)

Bio: Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.

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