W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

W. E. B. Du Bois

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• The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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