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Elizabeth Gould Davis: Men insist that...

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Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men consider feminine . . . are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Source: The First Sex, Ch. 22, 1971.
-- Elizabeth Gould Davis, ( 1910-1974), US librarian, writer;


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