Excerpts from the Book 'The Business Of Being A Woman':

... and ferment of mind is a serious handicap to both happiness and efficiency. Nor is self-discussion the only exhibit of restlessness the American woman ...
... know instinctively that under no other circumstances can such ripeness and such wisdom be developed, that nowhere else is the full nature called upon, ...
... afternoon tea hour, and what will you see. One or probably more women in mannish suits and boots calmly smoking cigarettes while they talk, and talk well, ...
... authority will rise up with experience that contradicts you. But the same may be said of the mind of man. The mind-_per se_-is a variable and disconcerting ...
... to be treated as an apostate if, instead of following the life work she had picked out, she slipped back into matrimony. I can remember the dismay ...
... his interests is the woman's greatest contribution to the child's development. I remember a call once made on me by two little girls when our time was ...
... build and support a home. Row upon row, street upon street, they run in every village you traverse. They dot the hills and valleys, they break up the ...
... those with whom they are sympathetic-a place in which there is spiritual and intellectual room for all to grow and be happy each in his own way. I ...
... great city where it belongs. So far as attitude of mind and spirit go, the home should be to the little neighborhood in which it works what Hull House ...
... is imitation. That is, we are not engaged in an effort to work out individuality. We are not engaged in an effort to find costumes which by their expression ...
... a recognizable travesty. The East Side hovers over it as Fifth Avenue has done over the original. The very shop window, where it is displayed, is dressed ...
... on the tyranny and corruption of clothes lies in the establishment of principles. These principles are, briefly:-. The fitness of dress depends ...
... at it. There is no family, at least of New England tradition, who does not know the methods they adopted. They changed the nomenclature. There were to ...
... what an awakening might we not hope for. Yet it is doubtful if it will be through the trained woman's organizations that the needed revolution will ...
... in their makeup. Parents and teachers ordinarily have extraordinary skill in evading, but little in facing, the facts of life. Disarmed by her ignorance, ...
... percentage of its pains and its vices result from a failure to make good connections. Children pine and even die for fruit in the cities, while a ...
... case of the woman unresponsive to her duty toward youth is parallel to that of the man unresponsive to his duty toward public affairs. One is as itless ...
... cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. We hang Rembrandt's or Whistler's picture of his mother on our walls ...
... the former. For instance, one constantly hears to-day the exultant cry that women finally are beginning to take an interest and a part in political ...
... distinguishing the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods of American history are the best evidences of the seriousness, idealism, and intelligence ...