I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get s…

James Thurber
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. ✨ James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber, Simon and Schuster
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. ✨ James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber, Simon and Schuster

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