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

- Emily James Smith Putnam

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

- Emily James Smith Putnam

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

- Emily James Smith Putnam

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

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 befo…

- Emily James Smith Putnam

The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and th…

- Emily James Smith Putnam

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 concer…

- 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.

- 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 …

- Emily James Smith Putnam