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Quotation by Alice Foote MacDougall
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The Autobiography of a Business Woman (1928)
... many of the so-called grievances of women are false. No man ever unfairly discriminated against me. If one tried to, I ... was equal to the emergency, and such experience really added a great deal to the zest of life.... women, as a habit, over- estimated their ability, and ... they were too untrained even to appreciate the magnitude of their undertaking.
Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945), U.S. businesswoman. The Autobiography of a Business Woman, ch. 3 (1928).
A flourishing merchant and the proprietor of five successful New York City coffee houses, MacDougall had opposed woman suffrage.
A flourishing merchant and the proprietor of five successful New York City coffee houses, MacDougall had opposed woman suffrage.
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