The dream of the typical American girl-next-door still doesn't include a good pair of quadriceps.... But there's been a big change... in attitudes. Muscles are becoming O.K. for women; it's even O.K. to sweat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all ...permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am useless, one more girl who couldn't be sold. When I visit the family now, I wrap my American successes around me like a pr...ivate shawl. I am worthy of eating the food. From afar I can believe my family loves me fundamentally. They only say, "When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls," because that is what one says about daughters. But I watched such words come out of my own mother's and father's mouths; I looked at their ink drawing of poor people snagging their neighbors' flotage with long flood hooks and pushing the girl babies on down the river. And I had to get out of hating range. I read in an anthropology book that Chinese say, "Girls are necessary too"; I have never heard the Chinese I know make this concession. Perhaps it was a saying in another village.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every single day, sexism plays a part in my life. ...Not from my company, from people outside the company: people who want to send... a tape, lawyers or managers. ...Because I'm a girl, they don't think I'm powerful enough to be in a position of authority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Say "Yessum" to the ladies, an' "Yessur" to the men, And when they's company, don't pass yer plate for pie again;... But, thinkin' of the things yer'd like to see upon that tree, Jes 'fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's assume you guys know I got this job because of my competency and proven successes with this company and you're just as happy... to have me here as I am to be here, and I won't ever think anything other than that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jerry: She's one of those third-year girls that gripe my liver. Milo: Third-year girls?... Jerry: Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain. Milo: Why? Jerry: They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor... is less dangerous than the dancing master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, more than ever before, American capital is seeking investment in foreign countries, and American products are more and more... generally seeking foreign markets. As a consequence, in all countries there are American citizens and American interests to be protected, on occasion, by their Government. These movements of men, capital, and of commodities bring peoples and governments close together and so form bonds of peace and mutual dependency, as they must also sometimes make passing points of friction. The resultant situation inevitably imposes upon this Government vastly increased responsibilities. This Administration, through the Department of State and the foreign service, is lending all proper support to legitimate and beneficial American enterprises in foreign countries, the degree of such support being measured by the national advantages to be expected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »