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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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