I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity th...at school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bread-winner must toil as in the fruitless effort of a troubled dream while the expenditure of an uneducated wife discounts th...e income in the lack of understanding to discern the broad possibilities of an intelligent economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...wasting the energies of the race by neglecting to develop the intelligence of the members to whom its most precious resources m...ust be entrusted, already seems a childish absurdity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question has been asked, "What is a woman?" A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner.... A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices. You cannot even simply become a mother anymore. You must choose motherhood. Will you choose change? Can you become its vanguard?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom... horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's plac...e is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee... Stadium of ancient times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and lov...ing and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »