Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant questi...on, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Robert: It's been quite an adventure, our life together. Jane: A great adventure, Robert. Anxious sometimes and sad. Sometime...s unbelievably happy. And thank God, never dull or sordid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Little has been written about the role of the jane, as I prefer to call the female john, in the life of the contemporary career wo...man.... In some ways it has replaced the old consciousness-raising group as a setting for the free exchange of ideas about men, work, children, personal development, and the ridiculous price of pantyhose. In most offices, it is one of the few spots in which a woman employee can pause, throw back her head, and say, loudly, "Men are so stupid sometimes I want to shoot all of them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cedar: Now would you tell the court what everybody at home thinks of Longfellow Deeds? Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilat...ed. Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but see...n only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must... be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only throug...h some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »