It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their... full share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,... Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you look at the 150 years of modern China's history since the Opium Wars, then you can't avoid the conclusion that the last 15 ...years are the best 15 years in China's modern history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." ...This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever you are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and... say, "Okay, life's a fact. People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. S...piritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--The man who has stood on the Acropolis, And looked down over Attica; or he... Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis, Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh, May not think much of London's first appearance-- But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men an...d women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization... and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »