Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses t...o regard, as mentally unwell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of p...erformance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the c...ourse involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can only be one Commander-in-Chief. In these times, crises cannot be managed and wars cannot be waged by committee. To the e...ars of the world, the President speaks for the nation. While he is of course ultimately accountable to Congress, the courts, and the people, he and his emissaries must not be handicapped in advance in their relations with foreign governments as has sometimes happened in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professi...ons, or by refusing to compete with man at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes--who can't be mentally faithful to his wife a...nd won't be unfaithful to her technically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Th...en if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... until now, it is a mentally isolated, a truely [sic] colonial position, which has been occupied by the women physicians of Ame...rica. When a century shall have elapsed after general intellectual education has become diffused among women; after two or three generations have had increased opportunities for inheritance of trained intellectual aptitudes; after the work of establishing, in the face of resolute opposition, the right to privileged work in addition to the drudgeries imposed by necessity, shall have ceased to preoccupy the energies of women; after selfish monopolies of privilege and advantage shall have broken down; after the rights and capacities of women as individuals shall have received thorough, serious, and practical social recognition; when all these changes shall have been effected for about a hundred years, it will then be possible to perceive results from the admission of women to the profession of medicine, at least as widespread as those now obviously due to their admission to the profession of teaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »