What us poor girls wants is not to be jumped up all of a sudden and made honest women of
 Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903). copy citation

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Author Samuel Butler
Source The Way of All Flesh
Topic women girl
Date 1903
Language English
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“his being in prison hasn’t done him a bit of good—he’s just as grave as those as have never been in prison at all, and he never swears nor curses, come what may; it makes me afeared of him, and therefore I drink the worse. What us poor girls wants is not to be jumped up all of a sudden and made honest women of; this is too much for us and throws us off our perch; what we wants is a regular friend or two, who’ll just keep us from starving, and force us to be good for a bit together now and again. That’s about as much as we can stand.” source