The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and... the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, whi...le her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computers were originally just supposed to be number-crunchers, but now their number-crunching has been harnessed in a thousand im...aginative ways to create new virtual machines, such as video games and word processors, in which the underlying number-crunching is almost invisible, and in which new powers seem quite magical. Our brains, similarly, weren't designed (except for some very recent peripheral organs) for word processing, but now a large portion--perhaps even the lion's share--of the activity that takes place in adult human brains is involved in a sort of word processing: speech production and comprehension, and the serial rehearsal and rearrangement of linguistic items, or better, their neural surrogates. And these activities magnify and transform the underlying hardware powers in ways that seem (from the "outside") quite magical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shall ...come later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young woman of twenty reacts with intuitive promptitude and security in all the usual circumstances in which she may be placed. ...Her likes and dislikes are formed; her opinions, to a great extent, the same that they will be through life. Her character is, in fact, finished in its essentials. How inferior to her is a boy of twenty in all these respects! His character is still gelatinous, uncertain what shape to assume, "trying it on" in every direction. Feeling his power, yet ignorant of the manner in which he shall express it, he is, when compared to his sister, a being of no definite contour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we walked along the Strand to-night, arm in arm, a woman of the town accosted us, in the usual enticing manner. "No, no, my gir...l, (said Johnson) it won't do."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no... matter how much she might lust for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant...; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »