[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfort...unes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the en...emy and the avenger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murd...er, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child's needs is an end in itself, for the purpose of t...he child's mental health. Mothers have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help a child begin to consider others. As a result, they often have not considered their children but have instead allowed their children's reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging them emotionally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;Mthey are the life, the soul of reading!--take them out of this book, for instance,--...you might as well take the book along with them;Mone cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;Mhe steps forth like a bridegroom,--bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so depreciated that women feel compel...led to take a job in order to hold the respect of the community. It is one thing if women work, as many of them must, to help support the family. It is quite another thing--it is destructive of woman's freedom--if society forces her out of the home and into the labor market in order that she may respect herself and gain the respect of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »