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 »
I am being given, if I may venture the expression, birth into death, such is my impression. The feet are clear already, of the gre...at cunt of existence.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 »
Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) ar...e the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master.... If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture... to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his vent...ure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, did you ever know a conceited man dare to praise a picture? The one thing he dreads (next to not being noticed) is to be prov...en fallible! If you once praise a picture, your character for infallibility hangs by a thread. Suppose it's a figure-picture, and you venture to say "draws well." Somebody measures it, and finds one of the proportions an eighth of an inch wrong. You are disposed of as a critic! "Did you say he draws well?" your friends enquire sarcastically, while you hang your head and blush. No. The only safe course, if any one says "draws well," is to shrug your shoulders. "Draws well?" you repeat thoughtfully. "Draws well? Humph!" That's the way to become a great critic!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets--the little thri...lling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty--surely they are due to Steam?" "And when we travel by electricity--if I may venture to develop your theory--we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no... man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »