I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questio...n--to be defended from the beginning to the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families wo...uld not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked, would come up on the other with a ...new suit of clothes on, and a ticket for soup in the waistcoat-pocket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to ...visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, the world is not a stage not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not li...ttle theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches ... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles.--That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be.... Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience--let him read someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to underst...and that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that t...he defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »