"Poor Esther!" said he gloomily. "She has been brought up among men, and is not used to harness. If things go wrong she will rebel..., and a woman who rebels is lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown ...in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less then a span:... In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you wer...e,] in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger... phallic symbol than a Porsche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And if his passions now and then outran Discretion, and were not so peaceable... As Numa's (who was also named Pompilius), He had been ill brought up, and was born bilious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother t...hat "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue--but only in a certain section of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Bible is good enough for me, just the old book under which I was brought up. I do not want notes or criticisms, or explanation...s about authorship or origins, or even cross- references. I do not need, or understand them, and they confuse me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in ...redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the kind of Negro that most white people don't know about. They either don't know, or maybe they don't want to know, I'm not ...sure which I mean, just listen to that fella, David Duke, down in Louisiana--the fella that was with the Klan and then he was going to run for president. David Duke doesn't think there are Negroes like me and Sadie, colored folks who have never done nothin' except contribute to America. Well, I'm just as good an American as he is--better! ...I think I'm going to write a letter, and I'm going to say, "Dear Mr. Duke: This is just to set the record straight. I am a Negro woman. I was brought up in a good family. My Papa was a devoted father. I went to college; I paid my own way. I am not stupid. I'm not on welfare. And I'm not scrubbing floors. Especially not yours."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »