Miss C_____ is ... remarkably neat in her person and is uncommonly diligent in every part of useful economy.... She hath indeed un...der her father's tuition acquired ... a large share of real learning of almost all the living and dead languages. Nor was the leisure which she found for such acquirements produced by neglecting anything necessary or useful for the family, but by the most assiduous industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of t...he father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who m...ust have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daughters of distant fathers, when they're little, don't know about biology and cultural bias and incest taboos and gender rol...e and economic downturns and all the buzz words of sociological, anthropological and psychological mitigation. All they know is that Daddy isn't there as much as Mommy . . . Daddy is simply the silent partner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daughter who is her father's indulged "little princess" may spend the rest of her life stamping her foot when she doesn't get ...her way, or pulling away when a love affair hits rough waters, or becoming a fair-weather friend who detaches when a chum asks too much of her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than a...nywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two feathered guests from Alabama, two together, And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,... And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand, And every day the she-bird crouched on her nest, silent, with bright eyes, And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them, Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha, your father told me something once, a long time ago, when I first started to work with him: In the war of science, many pe...ople must die before any victory can be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was occasions like this that made me more resolved than ever that my family would someday know real security. I never for a mom...ent doubted that I myself would ultimately provide it for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »