“ A real woman does a great many things without knowing why she does them ”
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 |
| Date | 1860 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2665/2665-h/2665-h.htm |
Context
“Why, the one that came with our little beauty, the old fellah in petticoats.
—Now that means something,—said I to myself.—These rough young rascals very often hit the nail on the head, if they do strike with their eyes shut. 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;”
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