Deborah Partridge Wolfe

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    I stand where Papa stood. I wear Papa’s robes.
    —Deborah Partridge Wolfe (b. 1916)

    Q: What would have made a family and career easier for you?
    A: Being born a man.
    Anonymous Mother, U.S. physician and mother of four. As quoted in Women and the Work Family Dilemma, by Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, ch. 2 (1993)

    I stand where Papa stood. I wear Papa’s robes.
    —Deborah Partridge Wolfe (b. 1916)

    There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous—and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
    —Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)