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Ida Husted Harper

  • The moment we accept the theory that women must enter wage-earning occupations only when compelled to do so by poverty, that moment we degrade labor and lower the status of all women who are engaged in it.

    • Ida Husted Harper,
    • in Independent ()

Ida Husted Harper, U.S. journalist, suffragist, writer

(1851 - 1931)

Full name: Ida A. Husted Harper.