These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when th...ey graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fis...hes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd rea...d, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entire...ly dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting... indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tac...ked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked faci...al resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even in my own writings I cannot always recover the meaning of my former ideas; I know not what I meant to say, and often get into... a regular heat, correcting and putting a new sense into it, having lost the first and better one. I do nothing but come and go. My judgement does not always forge straight ahead; it strays and wanders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today we seek a moral basis for peace.... It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression, or starvation, cruelty, o...r human life dominated by armed camps. It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbors. It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »