| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27884 |
| QUOTATION: | If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Beulah Louise Henry, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 13, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992).
Said in 1962; Henry had invented a type of umbrella. |
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