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“To be born woman is to know—
Although they do not talk of it at school—
That we must labour to be beautiful.”
- William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Adam’s Curse (l. 18–20). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Beauty, Wisdom, Women

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