“A woman character without allure would be like a Superman without muscle.”

— William Moulton Marston

"Letter to M.C. Gaines, Sep. 15, 1943; as quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.7 in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda" by Michelle R. Finn, p.14.

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American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ… 1893–1947

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