It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
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Some find fulfillment exclusively in domestic roles.
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rar…
Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the …
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. And those who can't teach, go into administration.
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?