The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.
the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife. - Emily James Smith Putnam
the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
- 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
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…
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
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. - Emily James Smith Putnam
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.
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 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…
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
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…
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
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.
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
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…
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
Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility …
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