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The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.

— Fannie Hurst Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

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A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.

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