Lyman Beecher Brooks

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    Isn’t it strange some people make
    You feel so tired inside,
    Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
    Like leaves all brown and dried!
    —Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942)

    ... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    Since a man must bring
    To music what his mother spanked him for
    When he was two ...
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)