Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's … - Emily James Smith Putnam

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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

Emily James Smith Putnam

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.

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Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. 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.

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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 proverbial for her skill in eluding definition. . . she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

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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 lady. . . is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

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