You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, I'...ve spent my life at it. You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many women who used to be full-time mothers are discovering that outside work gives them friends, challenges, variety, money, inde...pendence; it makes them feel better about themselves, and therefore lets them be better parents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To get time for civic work, for exercise, for neighborhood projects, reading or meditation, or just plain time to themselves, moth...ers need to hold out against the fairly recent but surprisingly entrenched myth that "good mothers" are constantly with their children. They will have to speak out at last about the demoralizing effect of spending day after day with small children, no matter how much they love them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that chi...ldren are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents' needs--for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone--are being met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also fol...ding furniture and a complete camping outfit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it... in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son w...ho need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses, whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch, patient watchfulness... and unwearied vigils, are as great factors in the care of the sick, as are the professional physicians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect t...o fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »