The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
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