Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, w...hose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the futur...e, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought d...own politically to the level of those others disfranchised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My Christian friends, in bonds of love, whose hearts in sweetest union join, Your friendship's like a drawing band, yet we mu...st take the parting hand. Your company's sweet, your union dear; Your words delightful to my ear, Yet when I see that we must part, You draw like cords around my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In movies about women, all important historical and natural events are translated into the terms of a woman's daily life. World Wa...r I is not about the Allies versus the Kaiser. It's about how unmarried women become pregnant when they have sex. The Depression is not about an economic collapse. It's about runs in stockings, no money for carfare, and being forced out into the streets. Natural disasters like earthquakes and cholera epidemics are defined by miscarriages and dying children. Everything is couched in terms of what are presumed to be the major events of a woman's life: men, marriage, motherhood, and all the usual "feminine" things. At the same time that big events are made small, personal, small events are made huge.... Thus, the woman's film is a genre that generously empowers a sex that society has relegated to secondary status.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman's world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what ...the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »