Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 31
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
— Isabel Allende, book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
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