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Mary Hannaford Ford

  • I don't want to have any privileges doled out to me like slices of gingerbread cut thin. I want to feel I can stand up under any star and shine just as independently and vigorously as I choose.

    • Mary Hannaford Ford,
    • "A Feminine Iconoclast" (1889), in Carol Farley Kessler, ed., Daring to Dream ()

Mary Hannaford Ford, U.S. writer