3 Quotes by 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 would lie through doing nothing at all.

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.

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