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"Full-time wife" – Mary Turner Lane (0:16)
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"I wanted to be able to move up" – Ellen Black Winston (0:23)
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"Such an important role" – Rosamonde R. Boyd (0:41)
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"Women could get there" – Kathrine Robinson Everett (1:17)
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"Ungracious" – Kathrine Robinson Everett (0:56)
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"So I went to law school" – Naomi Elizabeth Morris (0:43)
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"Women weren't wanted here" – Mary Turner Lane
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"Everyone had a wife" – Mary Turner Lane (0:50)
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"My abiding sense of guilt" – Mary Turner Lane (1:14)
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"I just quit" – Emily S. MacLachlan (0:15)
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"Out of the work force" – Juanita Kreps (1:44)
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"She couldn't get a job" – Harriet Herring
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"'No woman is competent'" – Guion Griffis Johnson
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"I did not want to offend" – Olive Stone (2:41)
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"We had to convince these men" – Mary Turner Lane (3:00)
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"It just all seemed natural" – Ellen Black Winston (0:35)
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"I never thought about it" – Naomi Elizabeth Morris (0:29)
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"What you believe in" – Kathrine Robinson Everett (1:19)
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"Quite a difference" – Ellen Black Winston (0:25)
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"The very best job we could" – Bonnie E. Cone (0:40)
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