It is the helpless cry of [the] lost women who are victims of centuries of wrong; it is the unspoken plea of thousands of women no...w standing on the brink of similar ruin; it is the silent appeal of the army of women in all lands who in shops and factories are demanding fair living and working conditions; it is the need to turn the energies of more favoured women to public service; it is the demand for a complete revision of women's legal, social, educational, and industrial status all along the line, which permits us no delay, no hesitation. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. The pressing need spurs us on, the certainty of victory gives us daily inspiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cr...oss each other up somewhere along the line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chaucer is fresh and modern still, and no dust settles on his true passages. It lightens along the line, and we are reminded that ...flowers have bloomed, and birds sung, and hearts beaten in England. Before the earnest gaze of the reader, the rust and moss of time gradually drop off, and the original green life is revealed. He was a homely and domestic man, and did breathe quite as modern men do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and othe...r outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,--to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their leader was a handsome man about thirty years old, of good height, but not apparently robust, of gentlemanly address and faul...tless toilet; such a one as you might expect to meet on Broadway. In fact, in the popular sense of the word, he was the most "gentlemanly" appearing man in the stage, or that we saw on the road. He had a fair white complexion, as if he had always lived in the shade, and an intellectual face, and with his quiet manners might have passed for a divinity student who had seen something of the world. I was surprised to find, on talking with him in the course of the day's journey, that he was a hunter at all,--for his gun was not much exposed,--and yet more to find that he was probably the chief white hunter of Maine, and was known all along the road.... In the spring, he had saved a stage-driver and two passengers from drowning in the backwater of the Piscataquis in Foxcroft on this road, having swum ashore in the freezing water and made a raft and got them off,--though the horses were drowned,--at great risk to himself, while the only other man who could swim withdrew to the nearest house to prevent freezing. He could now ride over this road for nothing. He knew our man, and remarked that we had a good Indian there, a good hunter; adding that he was said to be worth $6000. The Indian also knew him, and said to me, "the great hunter."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somewhere along the line of development we discover who we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are respons...ible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder ca...n sometimes smell like honeysuckle?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »