Class Quote by Emily James Smith Putnam

“The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.” quote by Emily James Smith Putnam — Download Open 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

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Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

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the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

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As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

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the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the…

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The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal…

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In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

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The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest…

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