"Miss Dudley ... gives one the idea of a lightly-sparred yacht in mid- ocean; unexpected; you ask yourself what the devil she is d...oing there. She sails gaily along, though there is no land in sight and plenty of rough weather coming. She never read a book, I believe, in her life. She tries to paint, but she is only a second-rate amateur and will never be any thing more, though she has done one or two things which I give you my word I would like to have done myself. She picks up all she knows without an effort and knows nothing well, yet she seems to understand whatever is said. Her mind is as irregular as her face, and both have the same peculiarity. I notice that the lines of her eyebrows, nose and mouth all end with a slight upward curve like a yacht's sails, which gives a kind of hopefulness and self-confidence to her expression. Mind and face have the same curves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother wi...thout and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of demo...cratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid- twentieth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appeared ...among Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honour came to me, though I sought it not;... I died at mid-day, sleeping; They did not see the reach of purple-wing that lifted me out of the little room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason the...y don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat's cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning... her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but eve...ry end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous cast...le.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »