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1874–1942

The Universal Answer

Alice Duer Miller

Oh, there you go again, Invading man's domain! It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying. Do n't fancy that you can

Be really like a man, So what's the use of all this fuss and trying? It seems to me so clear, That women's highest sphere

Is being loving wives and patient mothers. Oh, can n't you be content To be as you were meant? { souls

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