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It was like kissing over the telephone — it didn't get you anywhere, but it had a cunning sound.

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Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

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Let us in through the guarded gate,
Let us in for the world's sake.


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It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.

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Margaret Widdemer

Margaret Widdemer

Born: September 30, 1884
Died: July 14, 1978 (aged 93)
Bio: Margaret Widdemer was a U.S. poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers.
Known for:
  1. The Old Road To Paradise (1918)
  2. I've married Marjorie (1920)
  3. The Wishing Ring Man (1917)
  4. Winona of the camp fire (1915)
  5. Factories, Poems (1917)

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