“Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"”

A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)

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American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and … 1860–1935

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