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Lorine Pruette

  • ... [upon marrying] men appear to lose a large part of their capacity as adults; they can no longer feed themselves, house themselves, look after their health, or attend to their social responsibilities ... most of them upon marriage lose the capacity even of writing to their own mother.

    • Lorine Pruette,
    • "Why Women Fail," in Victor Francis Calverton and Samuel Daniel Schmalhausen, Woman's Coming of Age ()

Lorine Pruette, U.S. feminist, psychologist, writer

(1896 - 1977)

Full name: Lorine Livington Pruette.