The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin- poli...sher, and buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills, when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes, or when commons are inclosed by landlords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her beha...lf, and agitations for her advancement and development ... than for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role... of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.... The ...psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: "the contemplation of ruins," Erikson observes, "is a masculine specialty."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to a specialist his specialty is the whole of everything and if his specialty is in good order and it generally is then everyt...hing must be succeeding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I came along at a time when there was a demand to give men greater visibility and opportunity. In white society they were saying, ..."Women can't do it." In black society, they were saying, "Women do too much." It's a diabolical situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »