... there is nothing more irritating to a feminist than the average "Woman's Page" of a newspaper, with its out-dated assumption t...hat all women have a common trade interest in the household arts, and a common leisure interest in clothes and the doings of "high society." Women's interests to-day are as wide as the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beluthahatchee is a country where all unpleasant doings and sayings are forgotten, a land of forgiveness and forgetfulness. When a... woman accusingly reminds her man of something in the past, he replies, 'I thought that was in Beluthahatchee.' Or a person may say to another, to dismiss some matter, "Oh, that's in Beluthahatchee.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertnes...s for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings--crowded, active, thick.... But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain wit...h few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and ...with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The island seemed deserted to-day, yet I observed some new houses among the weather-stained ones, as if the tribe still had a desi...gn upon life; but generally they have a very shabby, forlorn, and cheerless look, being all back side and woodshed, not homesteads, even Indian homesteads.... The church is the only trim-looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome's doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tribe. Politics are all the rage with them now. I even thought that a row of wigwams, with a dance of powwows, and a prisoner tortured at the stake, would be more respectable than this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-...rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »