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I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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Emily James Smith Putnam

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.

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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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