“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”

—  Pearl S. Buck

"America's Medieval Women," Harper's Magazine (August 1938)

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American writer 1892–1973

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