Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. - Gertrude Atherton

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You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

Gertrude Atherton

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

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Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

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