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"Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family"
- Martha Griffiths
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Martha Griffiths
between January 29, 1912 and April 22, 2003. He/she was a famous
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