It is futile to ask women not to go into business, as futile almost as to insist that water shall not run downhill. One cannot sto...p world movements; and the efforts of women toward emancipation--the natural result of the deadly monotony of their task on the one hand, a jealousy of man's freedom, and a total ignorance of man's struggle as well as of the glory of their own special opportunity--all lead to the condition we are facing to-day. If in any way I can indicate the pain of the struggle, if I can succeed in making women appreciate that there are two sides to the question, one not altogether rosy, and that, although they will undoubtedly win, they will be forced to pay a high price, then I shall have accomplished my purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I concluded that I was skilled, however poorly, at only one thing: marriage. And so I set about the business of selling myself and... two children to some unsuspecting man who might think me a desirable second-hand mate, a man of good means and disposition willing to support another man's children in some semblance of the style to which they were accustomed. My heart was not in the chase, but I was tired and there was no alternative. I could not afford freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's partner's killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him, he ...was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. As it happens, we're in the detective business; well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man's. It is in the boys' gyms, the college fra...ternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, an...d a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man's having to know any...thing in order to edit a newspaper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man...'s game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »