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There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Century
Minors
Doubt
Wrestling
Woman
Centuries
Difficult
Considered
Many
Valuable
Excused
Men
Follow
Consequently
Time
Career
Sexism
Life
Careers
Minor

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