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It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.

— Eliza Calvert Hall Eliza Calvert (1910)

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Lida Obenchain's description of her then famous story Sally Ann's Experience.

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I've noticed that whenever a woman's willin' to be imposed upon there's always a man standin' 'round ready to do the imposin'.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907)

Patchwork? Ah, no! It was memory, imagination, history, biography, joy, sorrow, philosophy, religion, romance, realism, life, love and death; and over all, like a halo, the love of the artist for his work and the soul's longing for earthly immortality.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907)

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