The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from ...a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... feminism is the attempt of women to grow up, to accept the responsibilities of life, to outgrow those characteristics of child...hood--selfishness and unworldliness--that we require our boys to outgrow, but that we permit and by our social system encourage our girls to retain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »