"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
~ Pearl S. Buck ~












To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (...
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