The dream of the typical American girl-next-door still doesn't include a good pair of quadriceps.... But there's been a big change... in attitudes. Muscles are becoming O.K. for women; it's even O.K. to sweat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate, Keep all you have of queenliness,... Forgetting that you once were slave, And let your full lips laugh at Fate!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of t...hose candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The training and education of the girl of the present have seldom been discussed except from one standpoint--her suitable preparat...ion for becoming an economical housekeeper, an inexpensive wife, a willing and self-forgetful mother, a cheap, unexacting, patient, unquestioning, unexpectant, ministering machine. The girl's usefulness to herself, to her sex and race, her preferences, tastes, happiness, social, intellectual or financial prosperity, hardly have entered into the thought upon this question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »