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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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