... you can have a couple of seconds to rest in. I mean seconds. You have about two seconds to wait while the blanker is on the fe...lt drawing the moisture out. You can stand and relax those two seconds--three seconds at most. You wish you didn't have to work in a factory. When it's all you know what to do, that's what you do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year ...less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is bo...rn in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent commit...tee who sit on each other's affairs, who "come out" together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one h...undred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,--to r...egard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »