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Jean Webster

"One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes."

Source : Jean Webster (2002). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.97, Courier Corporation

Jean Webster

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