... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bos...s's moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado, The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes, ...>The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thi...eves!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world... Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... she was a woman. She had been taught from her earliest childhood to make use of this talent which God had endowed her, would b...e an outrage against society; so she lived for a few years, going through the routine of breakfasts and dinners, journeys and parties, that society demanded of her, and at last sank into her grave, after having been of little use to the world or herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, they'd call... her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly ...as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares.... When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down..., she wants to be kissed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... my aim is now, as it has been for the past ten years, to make myself a true woman, one worthy of the name, and one who will un...shrinkingly follow the path which God marks out, one whose aim is to do all of the good she can in the world and not be one of the delicate little dolls or the silly fools who make up the bulk of American women, slaves to society and fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other. In writing we did better wor...k than either could do alone. While she is slow and analytical in composition, I am rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic. She supplied the facts and statistics, I the philosophy and rhetoric, and, together, we have made arguments that have stood unshaken through the storms of long years.... So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »