The Unquiet SexC. Scribner's Sons, 1898 - 159 oldal |
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97. oldal - She was very loving," he says, " and obedient to her parents, loving and kind to her husband, very tenderhearted to her children, loving all that were godly, much misliking the wicked and profane. She was a pattern of sobriety unto many, very seldom was seen abroad except at church ; when others recreated themselves at holidays and other times, she would take her needle-work and say,
49. oldal - ... proposed the inculcation of deeper and broader ideas among women, proposed to teach them to think for themselves, and get their opinions at first hand, not so much because it is their right, as because it is their duty. We have also proposed to open out new avenues of employment to women, to make them less dependent and less burdensome, to lift them out of unwomanly self-distrust and disqualifying diffidence, into womanly self-respect and self-knowledge...
116. oldal - She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise: For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
16. oldal - I know the argument to the contrary ; I used to write about it myself, and believe it, too; but that was before the serious days settled down upon me, when I would gladly have exchanged my small birthright of Latin and Greek for the ability to make one single, respectable mess of anything half so good as pottage. The argument is, of course, that, given a certain amount of intellectual discipline and general training, the young woman will absorb easily enough such special facts as she needs when the...
102. oldal - But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.
125. oldal - For that is what it really is, call it what you will — "the housekeeping problem," '• domestic service," or " the servant question." It is no special and peculiar problem which attends naturally upon the existence of a home, as fungi spring up in a favorable soil. It is an integral part of that great labor question which is going to remain with us, " until we have shaken off the dead hand of feudalism which still presses with crushing weight upon the people through almost all the forms and institutions...
87. oldal - ... with the sincerest good intentions set about reforming in Don Quixote's style, and France has been in commotion ever since. They carefully grubbed up every root that drew its sustenance from the past, and have been finding out ever since to their sorrow that nothing with roots can be made to order. " Do right though the heavens fall " is an admirable precept so long as the heavens do not take you at your word and come down about your ears — still worse about those of your neighbors. It is a...
98. oldal - ... is my recreation.' . . God had given her a pregnant wit and an excellent memory. She was very ripe and perfect in all stories of the Bible, likewise in all the stories of the martyrs, and could readily turn to them; she was also perfect and well seen in the English chronicles, and in the descents of the kings of England. She lived in holy wedlock with her husband twenty years, wanting but four days.
58. oldal - ... the next world, is certainly essential to one's salvation in this. We sow hurry, and reap indigestion ; we cultivate our aspirations, and are landed in a typical case of neurasthenia ; we tipple all kinds of intellectual stimulants — not to say intoxicants — and then we wonder that our knowledge is not steadier and more serviceable. I sometimes wonder if there are not plenty of women to-day, conscientiously weighted down with the burdens of progress, who would gladly exchange all the privileges...
87. oldal - ... on doctrinaire reformers who insist, in spite of all history and experience, on believing that society is a device of human wit or an imposture of human cunning, and not a growth, an evolution from natural causes, is clear enough in more than one passage to the thoughtful reader. It is also a satire on all attempts to remake the world by the means and methods of the past, and on the humanity of impulse which looks on each fact that rouses its pity or its sense of wrong as if it was or could be...