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Selma Lagerlöf
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thumb|right|250px|Lagerlöf (1909)
thumb|Selma Lagerlöf, painted by Carl Larsson (1908)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Quotes
Women can do nothing that has permanence.
The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)
If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.
The Further Adventures of Nils (1907)
Said by Akka, leader of the wild geese to Nils
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