History Matters / Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past

The Mother of Us All
The Mother of Us All, Susan B. Anthony and Daniel Webster

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The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget that it has dreamed of the stars, While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

-Georgia Douglas Johnson