“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers , book Gaudy Night

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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

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