One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that … - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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I had gone to Europe. . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

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