Emily James Putnam Quotes (5 Quotes)

But the typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.

Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience.

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

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 doing nothing at all.

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.