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 Complicated Copy Share Image
the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife. — Emily James Smith Putnam Marriage Copy Share Image
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. — Emily James Smith Putnam Decay 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… — Emily James Smith Putnam Conditions Copy Share Image
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored… — Emily James Smith Putnam Class Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...… — Emily James Smith Putnam Age Copy Share Image
The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a… — Emily James Smith Putnam Accustomed 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 Contemporary Copy Share Image
The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is… — Emily James Smith Putnam Better off 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… — Emily James Smith Putnam Behalf 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… — Emily James Smith Putnam Art Copy Share Image
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