The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse wit...h the other sex sexually, at any time of life.... During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle--yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries es...tablished by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be perfectly, brutally honest, those of us who are still carrying diaper everywhere we go are not at our most scintillating tim...e of life....We need to remember that at one time in our lives, we all had senses of humor and knew things that were going on in the world. And if we just keep our social networks open, there will be people ready to listen when we once again have intelligent things to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know not how, But I do find it cowardly and vile,... For fear of what might fall, so to prevent The time of life--arming myself with patience To stay the providence of some high powers That govern us below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sens...e of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had just reached the time of life at which "young" is ceasing to be the prefix of "man" in speaking of one. He was at the brigh...test period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family. In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature b...ecomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another perso...n, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Come, come" said Tom's father, "at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake--... It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife." "Why, so it is, father--whose wife shall I take?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »