Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.