Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field... for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sounds are: the brisk swish of broom on tatami matting, the raucous cawing of hooded crows in a nearby willow grove; clickety-... clackety rattle of chattering housewives, a sound like briskly plied knitting needles, for Japanese is a language full of Ts and Ks; and, in the mornings, the crowing of a cock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, "Fanny made that barrel, and has d...one it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months' training." My father looked at it and said, "What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting... Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,... In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
your antlers like seaweed, your face like a wolf's death mask,... your mouth a virgin, your nose a nipple, your legs muscled up like knitting balls, your neck mournful as an axe....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pitiless rugs had nothing to say, the grandfather clock went on with its knitting,... the disposal vomited up chives and clover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »