68 quotes found
“Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things”
“John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have ...”
“John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John an...”
“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
“But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.”
“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful ...”
“It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but whos to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashion...”
“It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.”
“John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!"That silenced him for a few moments.Then he saidvery quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling...”
“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”
“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
“Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.”
“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”
“New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”
“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when o...”
“Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world mus...”
“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”
