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This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mother, Waiting, Noses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.8, Penguin
This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.