I feel no more like a man now than I did in long skirts, unless it be that enjoying more freedom and cutting off the fetters is to... be like a man. I suppose in that respect we are more mannish, for we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves, while man in dress and all things else is free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse t...o explore, a document to verify.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Through all opposition the personal benefits of the reform [dress] [bracketed word in original] have compensated; but had it been ...mainly sacrifice, the thought of working for the amelioration of women and the elevation of humanity would still have been the beacon-star guiding me on amid all discouragements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hallie: Ranse, do you think I could, I, I mean, grown up and all? Do you think I could learn to read? Ranse: Why sure you can..., Hallie. Why, there's nothing to it. It'd be, it'd be easy. Can you learn how to read? Why, I, I can teach you. A smart girl like you. Of course you can learn how to read. Now you wanna try? Hallie, I'll teach ya how. In no time you'll be reading everything. Hallie: It's awful worrisome not knowin' how. I know the good book from preacher talk. But it'd be a sole comfort if I could read the words for myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who are not spoken to by live and responsive adults will not learn to speak properly. Children who are not answered will ...stop asking questions. They will become incurious. And children who are not told stories and who are not read to will have few reasons for wanting to learn to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages... of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may hav...e been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion of grace or any sense of the fit...ness of things, to tolerate ... the styles of dress to which we are more or less conforming every day of our lives. Fifty years hence they will seem to us as uncultivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot seem today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »