Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes

• La maternidad es, a primera vista, una experiencia insociable. El egoísmo que una mujer ha aprendido a reprimir o disimular cuando se trata de ella sola, florece libremente y sin vergüenza en nombre de su descendencia.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Mother, Selfishness, Faces

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

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Gentleman, Decay, Evidence

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• En la sociedad contemporánea [la típica dama] es un arcaísmo, y apenas puede entenderse a sí misma a menos que conozca su propia historia.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Typical, Contemporary Society, Contemporary

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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.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Class, Skills, Female

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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.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Sex, Complicated, Existence

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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.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Anomalies, Planets, Deals

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• La mujer... no es productora; en la mayoría de las comunidades, el trabajo productivo no es propio de una mujer. Por otra parte, es la mayor consumidora, y los teóricos no han dejado de sostener que cuanto más gasta, mejor está la sociedad.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Wife, Theory, Virgins

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• la dama es casi la única supervivencia pintoresca en un orden social que tiende cada vez menos a tolerar lo excepcional. ... En la larga guerra entre hombres y mujeres, es un rehén en el campo enemigo. Su suerte no sube y baja con la de las mujeres, sino con la de los hombres.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Guerra, Caída, Hombres

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• 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 therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Art, Men, Offering

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• Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Lying, Struggle, Doing Nothing

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