“ Intellect is to a woman's nature what her watch-spring skirt is to her dress ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860). copy citation
Author | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
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Source | The Professor at the Breakfast-Table |
Topic | women intellect |
Date | 1860 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2665/2665-h/2665-h.htm |
Context
“A real woman does a great many things without knowing why she does them; but these pattern machines mix up their intellects with everything they do, just like men. They can't help it, no doubt; but we can't help getting sick of them, either. Intellect is to a woman's nature what her watch-spring skirt is to her dress; it ought to underlie her silks and embroideries, but not to show itself too staringly on the outside.—You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest.”
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