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It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a…
Quote bySarah Grimké · 1792–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Female Experience (1977), Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87..
English (original)
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
— Sarah Grimké
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