From three to six months, most babies have settled down enough to be fun but aren't mobile enough to be getting into trouble. This... is the time to pay some attention to your relationship again. Otherwise, you may spend the entire postpartum year thinking you married the wrong person and overlooking the obvious--that parenthood can create rough spots even in the smoothest marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could make out a good case for specially protecting men. It is time some attention was paid to vital statistics. More boys are b...orn than girls, yet more girls survive. There are always more widows than widowers, there are two million more women than men. In other words, woman's survival rate is greater than man's, and women are getting stronger all the time. If either sex needs protection, it would seem to be the men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid dem...onstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (per...haps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. If we could be attentive to the same degree in the presence of a human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long to hear that you have declared an independancy [sic]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be nec...essary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebelion [sic], and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was the feeling of a passenger on an ocean steamer whose mind will not give him rest until he has been in the engine-room and t...alked with the engineer. She wanted to see with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own hand the massive machinery of society; to measure with her own mind the capacity of the motive power. She was bent upon getting to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one pla...ce where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »