| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22038 |
| QUOTATION: | Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, managed by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Kate Field (1838–1908), U.S. newspaper publisher. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 11, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981).
Written in 1893, on the landmark Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition of that same year, held in Chicago. |
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