Chapter 6-10 quotes Flashcards
‘That terrifying product…
… of the social system he belonged to and believed in , the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger though May Welland’s familiar features’
‘Women should be…
… as free as we are’
‘A dull association…
… of material and social interests held together by ignorance on one side, and hypocrisy on the other’
‘He had a right to…
… in order that he might exercise his loving pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow’
‘Regretted they were…
… unable to accept’
‘A small slippery…
…pyramid, in which hardly a fissure had been made or a foot hold gained’
‘A rather stiff…
… affair with the postmaster’s wife’
‘Lawrence Lefferts pronouncing…
… on anybody’s social position? It shows what society has come to’
‘She came rather…
… late, one hand still ungloved; yet she entered without any appearance of haste’
‘Etiquette required…
… that she should wait, immovable as an idol while the men who wished to converse her, succeed her at her side’
‘It was certainly a strange…
… quarter to live in. Small dress-makers and ‘People who wrote’’
‘His only comfort was…
… to reflect that she would probably let him arrange his library’
‘Everything may be labelled
… but everybody is not’
‘He wondered at what…
… age do ‘nice’ women begin to speak for themselves’
‘We’re all alike…
… as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper’
