Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social or...der is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scrip...tures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those flowers, that gate, These misty parks and motors, lacerate... Simply by being over; you Contract my heart by looking out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here are a couple of generalisations about England that would be accepted by almost all observers. One is that the English are not... gifted artistically. They are not as musical as the Germans or Italians, painting and sculpture have never flourished in England as they have in France. Another is that, as Europeans go, the English are not intellectual. They have a horror of abstract thought, they feel no need for any philosophy or systematic "world view." Nor is this because they are "practical," as they are so fond of claiming for themselves. One has only to look at their methods of town-planning and water-supply, their obstinate clinging to everything that is out-of-date and a nuisance, a spelling system that defies analysis and a system of weights and measures that is intelligible only to compilers of arithmetic books, to see how little they care about mere efficiency.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course the New Testament is very small.... Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fash...ions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A faithful lover is a character greatly out of date, and rarely now used but to adorn some romantic novel, or for a flourish on th...e stage. He passes now for a man of little merit, or one who knows nothing of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out... of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »