We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dres...sing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not ... a fairy- land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extre...mely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart--and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have an...d to hold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes sui...ts the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never thought I'd have such a luxurious life. A healthy husband ... beautiful little girl ... Jacuzzi and beer and fruitbowl and... Beethoven and Mendelssohn and running.... Running is the best thing. [Ellipses in original]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and wh...ether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fifty years ago it was taken for granted that marriage was the goal of every young woman's inmost thought, and the aim for her of ...her father and mother. While it is everlastingly true that home is woman's kingdom, and that she who is happily married reaches a divine reality of blessedness surpassing that of her mateless sister, still single women are not objects of pity. There are numberless avenues for their occupation, and a girl with ordinary gifts has but to choose that employment for which she is best fitted.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 »